U.S. Health Care Workforce Realigning to Meet the Future, Hearing Before the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, U.S. Senate

Examines proposed legislation authorizing funds for the health professions & nursing education programs of the Public Health Service (PHS), & related workforce issues. The PHS programs are discretionary spending; they are not mandatory entitlements, & they will continue to feel fiscal pressure. Examined the goals of health professions programs as well as mechanisms of consolidating the various programs which are funded by it. Are the goals of the programs realistic & appropriate for today's problems? Are we asking programs to solve problems or to merely hold them at bay until we find other ways of resolving these challenges?Frist, Bill is the author of 'U.S. Health Care Workforce Realigning to Meet the Future, Hearing Before the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, U.S. Senate' with ISBN 9780756700553 and ISBN 0756700558.