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Duong: Improving health while reducing costs in a federal funding desert
Community health in Santa Clara County is facing its gravest challenge since the depths of the COVID pandemic. The full scale of the devastating cuts in federal health care spending contained in H.R. 1 will be felt this year in Santa Clara County and throughout the nation, and for several years after. That is why... The post Duong: Improving health while reducing costs in a federal funding desert appeared first on San José Spotlight .

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According to San Jose Spotlight’s source item, Duong: Improving health while reducing costs in a federal funding desert, Community health in Santa Clara County is facing its gravest challenge since the depths of the COVID pandemic. The full scale of the devastating cuts in federal health care spending contained in H.R. 1 will be felt this year in Santa Clara County and throughout the nation, and for several years after. That is why… The post Duong: Improving health while reducing costs in a federal funding desert appeared first on San José Spotlight .
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