VA Built dozens of veteran health centers but can’t find enough doctors and staff

“It’s a scene playing out across the country where the VA has built or updated about 40 health care facilities after legislation enacted under President Joe Biden expanded benefits, and there was a surge of veterans enrolling for care. But:

‘There’s a shortage of radiologists. There’s a shortage of primary care practitioners. There’s a shortage of mental health practitioners’, said Suzanne Gordon, senior policy analyst for the progressive-leaning Veterans Healthcare Policy Institute.”

The health care sector has been sounding the alarm for years. The Health Resources and Services Administration, part of the Department of Health and Human Services, projected in December that the US would experience an overall shortage of more than 141,000 physicians by 2038.

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