Feb. 27 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama will propose a $14.6 billion expansion of health-care and medical-training programs in the fiscal 2015 budget he's releasing next week, the administration said in a statement.
The spending is meant to "improve delivery of health-care services, particularly primary care" from inner cities to rural areas and finance specialty training for doctors and other health-care givers in underserved areas, the administration said.
The president is proposing to spend $5.23 billion over 10 years for a new program to support training 13,000 physicians who would be assigned to serve in high-need areas.
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