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Physicians in the United States Congress : ウィキペディア英語版 | Physicians in the United States Congress Physicians in the United States Congress have been a small minority, but substantially overrepresent the number of practicing physicians in the United States. As of 2014, there were 19 physicians serving as members of United States Congress; this was twice as many as a decade prior. The number of physicians serving and running for Congress has risen with increasing health care spending, increased health care reform debate in the United States, including the Healthcare Reform Act. Physicians in Congress have received large campaign contributions from health care trade associations and from peers through physician associations. ==History == In 1776, 11 percent of signers of the Declaration of Independence were physicians. Likewise two (5 percent) of the 39 individuals crafting the US Constitution in 1787 were physicians. During the first 100 years of Congress (1789–1889) 252 (or 4.6 percent) of 5405 members were physicians. At the beginning of each of the last five decades there were five (1960), three (1970), four (1980), two (1990), and 10 (2000) physicians in Congress, As of 2013 and 2014 there were 21 physicians, including one woman in Congress. There were 17 physicians and 2 veterinarians as of 2015, all of them male. Three quarters of physicians in Congress 2014 and 2015 were Republican, see table below.
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