Honestly I don't understand why Congress needs to fund these slots as much as they do. Hospital residents do a big chunk of day-to-day work seeing and treating

Honestly I don't understand why Congress needs to fund these slots as much as they do. Hospital residents do a big chunk of day-to-day work seeing and treating patients. They routinely work well over 80 hours per week based on the people I've talked to (despite this being illegal). And yet the government pays teaching hospitals $120k per year for each resident, while residents get something like $60k in salary from the hospital. It feels like a broken and exploitative system.