Political Quotes

“I thank my colleague for being our leader here in the Congress and, frankly, for this Nation because he has consistently made the point that given the demographics of where we are going to have so many more older people, where we have so many young people at risk, we desperately need Chairman Sanders to do what he is talking about, which is to address this massive shortage of healthcare workers in America. Addressing healthcare workforce shortages means we are going to have to have fresh, big league ideas to get these workers all across our country, and it is vitally important that we address several of the biggest ideas Chairman Sanders and I are talking about. For example, expanding funding for the Medicare Graduate Medical Education Program--what is called GME--would grow the number of doctors, especially primary care physicians and psychiatrists. This evening, Chairman Sanders, I want to make it clear that our two committees--yours doing important work, what is known as HELP, and ours on the Finance Committee--we are committed to bipartisan legislation that is going to increase investments in the Medicare Graduate Medical Education Program. We are also going to focus on incentivizing healthcare providers to partner with schools to train and develop healthcare professionals from medical assistants to advanced practice nurses.…”