Monterey County Herald | 04/25/2006 | Bush urges realistic immigration reform By JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press

Bush said community health centers are the best place for the poor to get primary care. ”There needs to be a campaign to explain what’s available for people so that they don’t go to the emergency rooms,” he said.

ABQjournal: Bush Budget Would End Aid By Leslie Linthicum, Journal Staff Writer

[A] one-line item in President Bush’s proposed 2007 federal budget that would eliminate all federal funding for urban health clinics around the country that principally serve Indians. It would slice about $1 million from First Nations in Albuquerque, forcing it to eliminate or find other funding for about half of its services.

The waiting room was full of people who count on the free clinic, which serves about 5,000 patients a year, 90 percent of them Native American.