Expand capacity before demand peaks

Year 0 onward; continuous · HRSA; UHA; states (scope of practice)Discuss this step

1997 Medicare cap on funded residency positions

expandedYears 0–5Workforce & training

Today

Hospitals' Medicare-funded residency slots largely frozen at 1996 levels.

Under the plan

Lifted for shortage specialties; 14,000 new positions funded.

Trade-off

More physicians long term; teaching hospitals gain influence over workforce composition.