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Doctors. 5,721 is the number of primary shortage areas. 15,230, the shortage of primary care doctors in the united states right now, 54.4 million are the number of people who will be affected. 62,9 0 is the deficit of doctors we may see before 2030. and 130,000 is the shortage we may see before 2025. why are the numbers this way? because there are traditional economic and legislative factors working against getting more doctors into the system. ten years, the minimum time it takes to train a doctor 125 are the number of residency programs have been capped. and 50,000 is the annual average cost...

Excuse me, the medicare cap. back in '97 when medicare costs were skyrocketing, congress says the cap which medicare pays for residencies. back it up. my kid will go to college, be a doctor, go to med school what is this 1997 rule about medicare have to do with what kind of doctor they will become? >> we need more doctors. we need to expand medical school. four years of training, once you graduate, go to a residency program. we need enough residency programs for those kids to go into. you cap the number of residency programs and expanding the number of medical students that are going into thos...

Million. the fact there are fewer doctors and medical students choosing to go into certain kinds of professions placing more pressure on the doctor workforce. >> greta: what i learned today and i learned much from your article and other articles, one of the primary problems while we can put a lot of students in medical school we have this bottleneck in this residency program which is post medical school we don't have enough residency programs and the reason is in part because in 1997 there was a medicare cap put on that program so that it couldn't grow. and the doctors had hoped for the new he...

Million. the fact there are fewer doctors and medical students choosing to go into certain kinds of professions placing more pressure on the doctor workforce. >> greta: what i learned today and i learned much from your article and other articles, one of the primary problems while we can put a lot of students in medical school we have this bottleneck in this residency program which is post medical school we don't have enough residency programs and the reason is in part because in 1997 there was a medicare cap put on that program so that it couldn't grow. and the doctors had hoped for the new he...

Quinquad, an addiction is more of a physical disease and more schools introduced res den she -- residency programs in addiction programs. all i am addicted to is hard-hitting journalism. and i did have the problem with the jazz salt. but it was the 20s, and we didn't know it was bad for you at the time. >> the jazz salt? >> the jazz salt, greg. >> interesting name. >> it is an interesting name. >> you know what is not interesting? >> what. >> gutfeld. wasted. >> well, did he cross the line with his taste in wine? paul ryan spent the evening siping expensive vein know. -- expensive vino at an e...