Healthcare DIVE March 20, 2025
Tom Price

A former HHS secretary argues healthcare should be able to utilize skilled immigrant clinicians to stem the effects of labor shortages.

Editor’s note: Tom Price, an orthopedic surgeon, served as HHS secretary in 2017. He is also a former congressman from Georgia.

The Health Resources and Services Administration’s February data shows that 77 million people currently live in healthcare deserts. We are on track to have a deficit of more than 187,000 physicians in the next decade — it’s clear that we need to change our trajectory.

Foreign students are an untapped pool of highly skilled professionals that can be instrumental in solving this issue. It’s time we tap them.

Despite new immigration enforcements, President Donald Trump responded with support...

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