The other $45 million a year represents the risk premium currently charged by private insurance companies to cover the clinics. but which the clinics will no longer have to pay. The second measure. part of the Veterans Health Care Act of 1992. will provide the same discounted drug prices to public health clinics that are now available to the Medicaid Program. The discounted prices will be available not only to community health centers and migrant health centers. but to a range of other clinics as well. including: Black lung clinics. drug treatment clinics. community mental health clinics. and other public and nonprofit agencies that receive Federal funds and serve lowincome patients. It is estimated that these discounts will save the clinics an estimated $60 million a year in funds that can be used to provide better care in the future. $20 million of these savings will go to community health centers and migrant health centers. and the other $40 million will go to the other public health clinics and public hospitals. When the Federal Government receives quantity discounts from drug companies. those discounts should apply to the entire Federal health offort. not just a part of it. Actions that benefit one agency should also help comparable Federal programs.