Yet by carefully controlling their costs and hospital use by their patients. they have saved millions of dollars for Medicare. Medicaid and local communities. In 1984 alone 433.788 Tennesseans did not qualify for Medicaid and had no health insurance. During that year community health centers in the State of Tennessee provided services to a total of 126.203 people. 60 percent of whom had no medical insurance. During that same year. migrant health centers also served 1.121 individuals. These health centers are a very important part of our Nations health care delivery system. They complement. rather than compete with. other providers in areas where there is a critical shortage of health services for the medically indigent.