On Feb. 7, President Bush proposed a 2006 fiscal year budget with no funds for Title VII, Section 747 -- even though the section's training grants for health professionals including family physicians have proved vital to improved rural health care. The proposed budget, however, does call for increasing the number of community health centers, especially in rural America. That's further cause for substantial Section 747 funds: More rural community health centers will require more rural FPs.
To e-mail your lawmakers and request support for Section 747 funding, go to http://capitol.aafp.org. For an article on research demonstrating the value of the funding, go to http://www.aafp.org/x32458.xml.
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