Last year, the American Association of Medical Colleges projected that over the next decade, as Senator Sanders pointed out, Louisiana will be the third worst in physician shortages of all 50 states.
Louisiana faces a severe projected physician shortage in the coming decade.
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It is unacceptable to me that 67 percent of rural communities in America are designated as dental professional shortage areas.
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every year, hundreds of thousands of Americans leave the United States go to countries like Mexico, Costa Rica, India, Thailand, and Hungary.
the tens of millions of Americans who are either unable to afford or unable to access the kind of dental care that they need.
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