Every American, child, elderly person should have quality health care.

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.

You got to elect people who are going to stand up and fight for them, make a difference in their lives.

We spend twice as much per person on health care as any other country.

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.

The worst thing we can do is take no action and wish it were better.

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

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.

We got to bring those people into the process.

It is time, Chairman Sanders, for us to get our due so the aspiring physicians in our Country may see that they will be fairly treated and protected should they choose a career in medicine.

now is the time to act!

The system today, the health care system today is working really good, for the insurance companies and for the drug companies.

We spend twice as much per person on health care as any other country. With the amount of money we spend, every American, child, elderly person should have quality health care.

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.

Thank you, Senator Sanders, for showing us continuously what leadership looks like, for being our voice when others are not listening.

We are going to do our best to grow the healthcare workforce and put a special focus on the need for more black doctors, nurses, psychologists, dentists, etcetera.

Health care is a human right, not a privilege.

Thank you for your visit, Senator Sanders.

it will take more individuals like you, Senator Sanders, and the HELP Committee, to achieve--thank you.

thanks to the work of Senator Sanders' HELP Committee.

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

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

Most importantly, I hope that what I and other Committee Members will learn from this hearing will be translated into law and will have an impact on how we provide health care to minority communities all across this country.

Thank you again, Chairman Sanders, for your leadership and interest in our views.

it is imperative that we as a country understand the significance of black physicians providing care for black patients and other patients as well.