8 Ways the Stimulus Bill Will Improve America's Health

From Division A, Title IX

• $600 million for the training of nurses, primary care physicians and dentists and to boost funding for the Health Service Corps
• $1 billion to renovate and rebuild health centers and health IT
• $1.5 billion to the NIH specifically for funding more scientific and clinical research
• $700 million to fund comparative effectiveness and evidence-based research (Ie the beginnings of a Federal Health Board made up of physicians in federal agencies that will examine current clinical patterns vs. the evidence-base and will create an annual report to the president and congress
• $2.1 billion to expand the Head Start program
• $2.5 billion for immunization and disease prevention programs

From Division B, Title III

• Extending COBRA benefits for those left unemployed

Division B, Title IV: Health Information Technology (HITECH Act)

• Policy and Requirements for national health IT standards and implementation

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