The Affordable Care Act and Future of Free Health Clinics

The environment for free health clinics will change with full implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Bridget McCandless, MD, medical director for the Shared Care Free Health Clinic of Jackson County, MO, shares how either repeal and replacement or full implementation of the Affordable Care Act would positively or negatively affect free health clinics. She sees a future need for them, whatever the outcome, due to their specialization in poverty medicine. (Sept. 26, 2012)