Community health centers a lifeline for many

In an op-ed piece Beth Giesting wrote for the Honolulu Advertiser:

"Did you know that in Hawaii 30 percent of us live in areas where there aren't enough physicians, dentists, or mental health providers?

Or that an estimated 120,000 of us have no medical insurance, while double that number have no coverage for dental care? How about that one in four of us lives in or near poverty, or that we're more likely than residents of almost any other state to be homeless?"

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