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On another front, the ACA allocated $1.5 billion to the National Health Service Corps, a training program, which for decades has offered scholarships and loan forgiveness to young primary care clinicians who volunteer to practice in underserved areas. As of September 30, 2015, there were 9,600 Corps clinicians providing primary care services, more than twice the number of these clinicians in 2008 (White House, 2016). Under the Trump administration, however, these achievements were significantly scaled back.
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