What is the school-based health clinic in HR3200?

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In a section innocuously titled “School-Based Health Clinics,” the House bill, H.R. 3200, seems to set up Democrats to invite groups like Planned Parenthood into our schools to serve as a school “health clinic.”(‘Sec. 399Z-1. School-Based Health Clinics.)

And even more insidiously the bill provides for these “clinics” to be initiated immediately — effective date to be July 1, 2010 — whereas much of the rest of H.R. 3200 does not take effect until 2013. Why the rush? If one were cynical, one might think that the fast tracking of these “clinics” was meant to catch critics off guard. After all, if these “clinics” are slipped into our schools before anyone is aware of them, it will be harder to get them out or to protest the whole deal beforehand.

Here is how Sec. 399Z-1 begins:

‘(a) Program- The Secretary shall establish a school-based health clinic program consisting of awarding grants to eligible entities to support the operation of school-based health clinics(referred to in this section as ‘SBHCs’).

And what sort of group is “eligible” to serve as an in-school clinic? Why any group that the Secretary of Health and Human Services decides will qualify, of course. All they have to do is “submit an application at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Secretary may require.”

Even more eyebrow raising is the fact that this bill requires these clinics to “establish a network” to offer services after school is closed, too.

‘(iii) the SBHC will provide on-site access during the academic day when school is in session and has an established network of support and access to services with backup health providers when the school or SBHC is closed;

Apparently these clinics will assume there are no parents or families responsible for kid’s healthcare services. Who needs parents? We have Obamacare and his in-school clinics to take care of kids in AND out of schools.

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The above opinion may be a stretch, but does anyone else have any ideas what the heck a SBHC is?