Xavier Becerra: “I thank the gentleman from Texas for yielding me the time. Mr. Chairman, to put everything in perspective, we are told…”

“I thank the gentleman from Texas for yielding me the time. Mr. Chairman, to put everything in perspective, we are told by the American Academy of Family Physicians that today, today we can foresee a shortage of some 40,000 primary care physicians in this country in less than 10 years. Within another 5 years, that shortage will grow to about 42,000 to 46,000 primary care physicians. Graduate medical education funds does something very simple. It says to some of these clinics, some of these health care providers, that if you guarantee that you will make graduate medical training available to our future doctors, then we will guarantee that there will be money behind that training so that there will be a consistency so that medical students can finish training. Well, we just heard that this money that's available to these health care providers, these clinics, should no longer be guaranteed.…”