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Government Funds Earmarked to Encourage an Increase in Primary Care Providers

According to Health and Human Services Secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, the federal government will spend $250 million in programs to increase the number of doctors, nurses and other care providers.  This funding is a first step to address a national shortage of health-care workers.

The money is the first allotment from the Prevention and Public Health Fund, created by the new health-care law, the Obama administration said in a statement. It includes $168 million to train 500 new primary-care physicians over the next five years, $30 million to encourage 600 nursing students to attend school full-time and complete their education, and $32 million to create 600 new physician assistants.  

You can read more about this new funding in the Washington Post.