On the recordSeptember 23, 1993
The truth is, if you look at how the Government spends its money, it's heavily weighted towards specialties now. What we propose to do is to change the formula by which the Federal Government funds medical schools now to favor more--not to say you can't be a specialist but to slightly tilt more in the favor of general practice, because only 15 percent of the doctors coming out of medical school today are general practitioners. The average nation has--you know, like Germany or Japan or Canada--half the doctors will be general practitioners. We can't do what we need to do in medically underserved areas without more family doctors. And the fourth question you asked was?
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