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Tammy Baldwin: “We've seen a lot of attrition with regard to nurses and…”

Featuring: Tammy Baldwin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Tammy Baldwin interview, WUWM radio

Published | Video Starts at 14:26

We have to make sure that those lower prices are not just for those on Medicare, but are for everybody. We have to expand the workforce in healthcare. We've seen a lot of attrition with regard to nurses and physicians and other healthcare workers because of... the pandemic. We have to make sure that we're able to fill those vacancies. And there's lots of people who want to go into those fields, but we have to make that healthcare path affordable to them also. (14:26)

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Asserts that the pandemic has caused significant attrition among healthcare workers.

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