For-Profit Medicine: Gov. Shapiro’s Budget Seeks to Rid Health Care of Private Money

“Physician Joanna Hart, senior fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics and assistant professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, said she was encouraged by the focus on workforce development in Mr. Shapiro’s budget. Recruiting doctors and nurses to rural areas will require creative solutions, such as education loan repayment aid, she said.

The proposed budget includes $5 million for workforce initiatives to educate and recruit nurses and an additional $20 million to counties to provide behavioral health services and address workforce shortages.

But rural Pennsylvania’s health care problems go deeper, she said

‘If we want to support people living in those areas, we need to provide basic health care,’ Dr. Hart said. ‘Pulling hospitals out of places where people need them most is not appropriate.'”

Read more at Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.