Clinica receives federal grant to help low-income patients

Clinica Family Health Services in Lafayette will receive $254,000 from the federal government to help its mostly low-income patients buy health insurance online.

Every U.S. resident must sign up for health insurance coverage by Jan. 1 or pay a penalty under the federal Affordable Care Act approved by Congress and signed into law in 2010.

To help uninsured folks in Colorado, the federal government recently gave a $3.1 million grant to 17 community health clinics around the state, including the money received by Clinica.

Clinica has six health clinics and a couple of corresponding dental clinics in the region, including one in Boulder,…