{"id":99648,"date":"2025-07-28T15:07:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T15:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/99648\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T15:07:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T15:07:12","slug":"why-d-c-isnt-acting-on-skilled-health-care-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/99648\/","title":{"rendered":"Why D.C. isn&#8217;t acting on skilled health care immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"pb-2\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.medicaleconomics.com\/view\/ep-67-immigration-policy-and-the-physician-shortage-with-thomas-e-price-m-d-\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tom Price, M.D.<\/a>, says legal, merit-based immigration in health care is one of the few policy issues with genuine bipartisan support \u2014 but it still hasn&#8217;t broken through the noise in Washington.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pb-2\">&#8220;There&#8217;s always something sucking the oxygen out of the room,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Why it doesn&#8217;t happen is confounding \u2014 it was when I was in Washington and continues to be from the cheap seats out here in the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"pb-2\">The former Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary reflects on why legislation to bring more qualified international physicians and nurses into the U.S. workforce hasn&#8217;t gained meaningful traction, despite broad support and the urgent need.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pb-2\">&#8220;That&#8217;s why I&#8217;ve been talking about this, because this is one of those areas that does have bipartisan support that could be able to pass through both the House and the Senate, and, I believe, signed by the President,&#8221; Price said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pb-2\">His message to policymakers and the public: don&#8217;t let the issue slip off the agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Price, M.D., says legal, merit-based immigration in health care is one of the few policy issues with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":99649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[65152,210,1141,65156,1142,65155,65153,65154,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-99648","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health-care","8":"tag-bipartisan-health-care-reform","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-health-care","11":"tag-health-care-legislation-gridlock","12":"tag-healthcare","13":"tag-physician-workforce-shortage","14":"tag-skilled-immigration-policy","15":"tag-tom-price-immigration","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}