Harry Reid in Where We Go From Here, by Bernie Sanders

On Health Care: $12B for more community health centers

I have long been a champion of seeing the government create a strong primary health care system so that every American, regardless of income, can visit a doctor whenever he or she needs to. The best vehicle for doing so was a major expansion of the Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) program. Harry and I talked often about the importance of community health centers, and how they were working effectively in Vermont as well as in his own state of Nevada.

I will never forget the day Reid called me into his office and told me that he was putting $12 billion more into the program, as part of the Affordable Care Act, the largest expansion in FQHC history. As a result, many millions more Americans have been able to access the health care they need.