Train More Primary Care Doctors Act of 2025
Train More Primary Care Doctors Act of 2025
Plain Language Summary
# Train More Primary Care Doctors Act of 2025 - Summary **What the Bill Does:** This bill would extend federal funding for a program called the Primary Care Training and Enhancement program through 2030. The program provides grants (financial support) to hospitals, medical schools, and other healthcare organizations to help them train more primary care doctors—the general practitioners and family medicine doctors that serve as people's first point of contact in the healthcare system. **Who It Affects:** The bill would benefit medical schools, hospitals, and healthcare training institutions that receive these grants. Indirectly, it could help patients by supporting the training of more primary care physicians, which could help address shortages of these doctors in many parts of the country.
Taxpayers would fund the program through federal spending. **Current Status:** The bill is currently in committee (HR 958), meaning it's under review by the appropriate House committee but has not yet been voted on by the full House of Representatives. It was introduced by Representative Zachary Nunn (R-IA).
CRS Official Summary
Train More Primary Care Doctors Act of 2025This bill reauthorizes through FY2030 the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Primary Care Training and Enhancement program, which provides various grants to entities such as hospitals and schools for enhancing training and education for the primary care workforce.
Latest Action
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.