In this budget, the Secretary calls for eliminating programs to prevent death and disease, such as the National Diabetes Prevention Program, the Tobacco Prevention Control Program, and with what you said, Mr. Chairman, the safe Motherhood and Infant Health Program. This budget would also train fewer healthcare providers. Even as our population ages, it deeply cuts workforce development programs, including those that place doctors in underserved areas. We need more doctors, not less. I started by talking about our successes. (04:26–04:30)
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