Foreign-born physicians serve millions of Medicare beneficiaries, immigration policies threaten workforce
In 2024, internal medicine physicians not born in the U.S. treated 22 million Medicare beneficiaries. Trump administration immigration policies may reduce this workforce, exacerbating care shortages for underserved populations.
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