MedPage Today February 16, 2023
— Allowing more immigrant workers, adding training slots among ideas raised at Senate hearing
Members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee each had a different issue to raise with witnesses Thursday at a hearing on healthcare workforce shortagesopens in a new tab or window.
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) wanted to know how the U.S. could increase the number of immigrants joining the healthcare workforce. “According to the Migration Policy Institute, as of 2018, the foreign-born comprise almost 18% of the 14.7 million people in the U.S. who work in healthcare — nearly one in five — and the foreign-born make up a disproportionate share of certain high- and low-skilled healthcare workforces: 28% of our physicians and...
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