Affordable Care

School-Based Health Clinics and Adolescents under the Affordable Care Act

School-based health clinics can have many advantages over traditional health care delivery methods. The primary advantage is that school-based health clinics can specialize in the individual needs of the adolescents while a primary care physician may have relatively little expertise in many of the conditions that might affect this demographic group. However, with the school-based clinics, the staff can be well versed in the specific challenges that these adolescents face and provide effective avenues to address these challenges.

Given the passage of the Affordable Care Act, the entire health care environment will be altered. Although adolescents will have increased access to more traditional challenges of health care delivery, there may be a trend in which adolescents are disadvantage in some manner because they will be less exposure to the school-clinics who specialize in many of the age specific...
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