Senate HELP Committee Holds Hearing on Critical Shortage of Doctors, Nurses

Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) said it’s obvious America has a problem when it comes to health care.
“Simply put … a significant percentage of our population live in places where they cannot access the health care they desperately need,” Sanders said as he opened a hearing by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) committee on Feb. 16.
Sanders chairs the committee, which was convened to hear from experts in the health care industry about the critical shortage of doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals. The experts said the shortage was bad before the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus—commonly known as the novel coronavirus—but the pandemic had exacerbated it….}