Doctor Shortage: Graduate Medical Education System Needs To Be Reformed
Tuesday, May 27, 2014 - 17:00
in Health & Medicine
The United States contributes almost $10 billion a year from Medicare into funding the Graduate medical education (GME) system but it fails to provide the workforce needed for the 21st century and lacks the necessary transparency and accountability. Instead, it is more like political cronyism. New York, for example, gets 20% of the total while 29 other states, including places with a severe shortage of physicians with far more seniors and poor patients, get less than 1 percent. read more