Congress must continue to work to increase patient access, rein in exorbitant premiums and drug prices, support the community health centers that treat our most vulnerable populations, support the teaching hospitals that train our next generations of health care workers, and invest in preventative care.
Support teaching hospitals that train future health care workers.
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Congress.gov lists H.R.4578 as a bill to reauthorize the Children's Hospitals Graduate Medical Education Program. Its summary says it would require HHS payments through FY2010 to children's hospitals for approved graduate medical resident training programs. Rep. Stephen F. Lynch [D-MA-9] cosponsored it on 2004-07-22; latest action was referral to the Health Subcommittee.
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Congress.gov lists Rep. Stephen F. Lynch [D-MA-8] as a cosponsor on 2025-10-14. The CRS summary says the bill increases residency positions eligible for Medicare graduate medical education payments for qualifying hospitals, including rural and health professional shortage area hospitals, with 2,000 additional positions per fiscal year from FY2026-FY2032. The latest action remains referral to House committees.
Assessments
Lynch made concrete same-term support by cosponsoring the 2004 CHEER Act to continue federal payments to children's teaching hospitals for graduate medical residency training. That bill did not advance beyond referral, and his later 2025 GME/residency expansion cosponsorship was still only pending, so the record shows meaningful support but not a fully delivered, candidate-attributable enacted outcome for this promise.