The hard facts about the increased proportions of physicians who practice specialty medicine are set forth at pages 55 through 72 of the report. I believe such direct Federal intervention in this area was inevitable but at the same time that we need substantial professional consensus on a number of key value judgmentssuch as how many specialty or sub specialty of any type are needed per unit of populationand for this the amendment provides. It is essential that we take steps that lead to the reduction of our current excessive dependence on noncitizen foreign medical graduates. I can find no reasonable. intellectual. or philosophical rationale for this Nation to take from less fortunate underdeveloped nations their desparately needed medical manpower to meet our national needs for physicians. Foreign medical graduates are now approaching 20 percent of all physicians practicing in this country.
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