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Steve Cohen: Well, there are so many problems. I represent an urban district in Memphis, and we do have a lack of health care in the…

On the recordJanuary 18, 2011
Well, there are so many problems. I represent an urban district in Memphis, and we do have a lack of health care in the urban areas. We need more primary care doctors, and we also need more community health centers. That's something else the bill is going to provide for, more community health centers. There are large areas in my community where there are very few doctors who are available and where there are not community health centers. So that's another portion. It's not just the primary care doctors who are so important--and we've got some of the greatest in Memphis--but it's the difficulty in not having community health centers.
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Steve Cohen
Democratic · Tennessee
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Jan 18, 2011

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The speaker addresses the lack of healthcare and community health centers in urban Memphis.

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