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Originally Posted by buggyone
Currently, there is a record high of students in medical school. Certain specialties do have a shortage but Congress could fix that quickly by striking a Medicare provision dating back to 1997.
BTW, I have not seen any physicians as clients at the local food pantries!
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By striking that provision limiting the number of residency slots Medicare will pay a teaching hospital to provide, the funding to pay those residents a small salary (during their 3-5 years of training) has to come from somewhere, and that would be from Medicare. I don't think anybody wants to see more reduction in Medicare dollars after the cuts already on the table, to help pay for the ACA expansion of Medicaid.