Key Senate Republican Wants Health Workers’ Visa Fee Exemption

A leading Republican appropriator said she would support exempting health care workers from a new hefty fee the administration is levying on certain work visas.

Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), who chairs the Senate Appropriations health subcommittee, said she is hearing concerns from hospitals and would support a carve out.

“We’re going to have shortages of some of our docs that are under stress and duress, and they don’t know what their future is and the institutions don’t know either,” she said in an interview. “We rely on a lot of doctors coming in from foreign countries in rural areas and ...