We have got to do that in Texas. We have got to do that in many, many states in this country.

The opposition there is enormous. The people who are making the money want to maintain the status quo.

We will be introducing legislation for a Medicare for all single payer program.

Does anybody think it is vaguely sane that at a time when we desperately need more physicians, especially black and Latino physicians, that we are asking people to leave school, medical school, $300,000, $400,000 in debt?

thanks to the work of Senator Sanders' HELP Committee.

We are very grateful to HELP Committee Chairman Sanders, Ranking Member Cassidy, and all Members of the Committee for your interest in and focus on national health workforce challenges.

We have got to bring those people into the process.

What we need to do is very simply. Create a health care system designed to provide quality, affordable health care to all as a human right.

In Build Back Better, which was a major piece of legislation which would have dealt with many of the issues we are talking about here today, which lost by two votes, we substantially increased the number of GME slots, I think by about…

I think a lot of the programs need to build in--and even updating the capacity of minority serving institutions and HBCUs to talk about financial literacy with their students.

We should not have half a million people who are homeless.

You will say that you want to treat all the patients who walk at your door, not just those who have the money.