secretaries to lean on these states and say, we re not going to send you billions of dollars for you to sit here and ignore disadvantaged businesses, they need to accestep up as well. you can t have politicians talking about crime rate, building more prison, talking about all of these negative things in our society but then turn around and say, well, folks can t get jobs. they have to say, look, if you don t this here, we ll sit here and cut the money off. do what atlanta mayor maynard jackson did when he said i understand the political power and i combine them with economic power. having a black president is one thing, but having african-americans with economic equality is a whole different issue. is there a frustration in the african-american community, especially the congressional black caucus? we re getting conflicting reports, as you know, donna. they are advocating for more change, more resources, apprentice ship. i mentioned job programs for young people. but at the end of t
be open to new patients. reporter: so why is that happening? one reason is plain and simple, it s money. the average primary care doctor makes $173,000 a year. compare that to $419,000 for cardiologists or $335,000 for oncologists treating cancer. how much of this is about money, just compensation? i think that s a major reason why a lot of medical students aren t choosing family medicine. the potential for financial gain is just not the same as those other fields. reporter: the health care bill does try to fix that. there s a 10% pay bump to family physicians through medicare. and the add-on bill which is now being considered in the senate has an even bigger increase for doctors making medicaid. low-income patients. the bill that passed has other incentives as well. it expands the program to forgive loans to medical students who go into primary care. even before all of that goes into effect, there have been some signs of change. in fact, last week when medical students around th
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