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The Health Care Personnel Delivery System is created to allow the federal government to draft healthcare workers.

Date: 1989

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Congress orders the Selective Service System to put in place a system that is capable of drafting "persons qualified for practice or employment in a health care occupation" (GovRegs, n.d.) if a "special skills draft" should be ordered by Congress.

The system is designed to include women and men ages 20-54 in 57 different job categories. Called "the medical draft," it is the first time this type of system has been put into place.