Bill Clinton: “Well I think, for one thing, you know, let me just mention, if you start in medical school, under our plan we would…”

“Well I think, for one thing, you know, let me just mention, if you start in medical school, under our plan we would shift the allocation of internships and slots more toward primary care physicians, so you'll have more people in that business, and they don't have to go where the market is. Secondly, I think, we know the National Health Service works; it just got cut way back. So if you put another 7,000 doctors out there, it will make a difference, because that's a way to pay your medical school. And then the way the tax credit works is that it will, in effect, increase the income of every doctor in the underserved areas by $12,000 a year. That's what a $1,000-a-month tax credit is. And even though--you know, if people just come in here in 5-year cycles, that's a significant amount; that's a big commitment of your professional life. You can keep going that way. [Mr. Scott described the Montgomery County not-for-profit corporation designed to recruit six to eight family physicians to reduce the workload of county physicians. He then introduced Beth Howell, director of nursing, Montgomery Memorial Hospital, who discussed recruitment and retention of nurses in rural areas.]”