If Congress fails to delay Medicaid DSH cuts, some of our Nation's safety net providers will be forced to close.
I am pleased to cosponsor the CHIME Act, a bipartisan measure which would provide 5-year reauthorization to increase funding.
The United States has a growing shortage of primary care physicians, which is estimated to reach 50,000 by the year 2030.
The Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education Program was created under the ACA in the effort to get more doctors in medically under...
The two largest predictors of where a physician will eventually lay roots and practice are where they are from and where they last train.
Together, they deliver high-quality care to nearly half a million of my constituents.
Let me also say that when we look at diabetes in my home State of New York, there are 2 million New Yorkers who have it.
That is not a good thing to do.
I urge my colleagues to join me in helping preserve access to care for the most vulnerable among us.
We have a drastic physician shortage crisis everywhere in America in terms of absolute numbers.
The Special Diabetes Program for Indians is an incredibly important program and has been successful in lowering rates of diabetes across Ind...