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Immigration and the physician shortage: It's not just physicians
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Former HHS Secretary Tom Price, M.D., urges broader recognition of the crisis beyond physicians and nurses.
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The former Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary emphasizes the breadth of the staffing crisis and calls for greater public awareness and political pressure at both the federal and state levels.
"This isn't just a small niche in health care," Price said. "It's not just physicians that are in shortage. It's not just nurses that are in shortage ... it's throughout the entire realm of our health care workforce."
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