Federal Support of Health Manpower Education
- 30 January 1986
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 314 (5) , 324-328
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198601303140529
Abstract
Reducing federal support for medical education, the central feature of government policy in this sphere over the past decade, is certain to continue this year as Congress moves to implement the new Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. Such a step would lead to further changes in the financing of medical education by forcing a greater reliance on state support, students' tuition, scholarships and loans, research dollars, patient care fees, and private philanthropy.Although the Reagan administration has championed the proposition that the federal government should withdraw from the subsidization of medical school training, Democrats have been . . .Keywords
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