Chuck Schumer: “I rise to address a related issue. I had come to join my colleague from New Jersey in addition to my colleague from…”

“I rise to address a related issue. I had come to join my colleague from New Jersey in addition to my colleague from Michigan on teaching hospitals. Like many of our precious resources, our teaching hospitals are concentrated in a few regions of the country. In fact, 50 percent of the residents trained in the US are educated in just seven States. New York is home to nearly 10 percent of the Nation's teaching hospitals which train 15 percent of our Nation's new doctors--the single greatest percentage of any state. And though we train them, they don't all stay in New York. They go to states where teaching hospitals are few and far between--like New Hampshire, Vermont, Montana, Delaware, and South Dakota--States that have fewer than 5 teaching hospitals each. Twenty-two percent of the physicians practicing in both Vermont and New Hampshire--and nearly 20 percent of those in Delaware--were trained in New York. Five to 6 percent of the physicians practicing in South Dakota and Montana were trained in New York hospitals. Even States that do have a significant number of teaching hospitals are dependent on New York for residents. Over 30 percent of Connecticut's physicians and 47 percent of New Jersey's were trained in New York teaching hospitals. Even 10 percent of those practicing in North Carolina hailed from New York originally. In fact, there's not a State in the Nation that doesn't have at least a few doctors who were trained in New York institutions.”