Posted on 08/17/2017 1:25:32 PM PDT by Thalean
Now that President Trump has signaled his support for the RAISE Act, many Americans are being forced to think about the merits and pitfalls of our legal immigration system. One important problem that has received no attention is how the large-scale immigration of foreign physicians has contributed to the atrophying of our medical schools.
Specifically, America’s universities can no longer train enough medical practitioners to meet the nation’s healthcare demands—America relies on the immigration of foreign professionals to maintain its healthcare system, and standard of living. In a sense, we rely on imported physicians like we rely on foreign oil.
Before beginning, let’s be clear: there are more physicians per capita in America than at any other point in time. There are also more nurses, physiotherapists, and mental health professionals. This is good. But it’s also worth wondering how we got here: was the process organic, or artificial? Do we, as a country, actually have the educational infrastructure to train that many professionals, or are we living in a consumption bubble?
Unfortunately, we are in bubble territory. In 1982/83 America graduated roughly 16,000 physicians. This number has barely budged since. In fact, in 2015 America graduated just 18,705 physicians—that is, 17 percent more. During the same period, America’s total population increased by 39 percent, from 231.7 million in 1982, to 322 million today.
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Time to start making it more attractive to become doctors. Start with tort reform and malpractice insurance reform.
You could also take pressure off of the system by deporting fifteen or twenty million.
More “Who’s supposed to pick our cotton?”.
BINGO!!
It’s market forces. You need more doctors they will produce more doctors
In a free market, that’s true, but the AMA restricts the domestic production of doctors by preventing the accreditation of new medical schools. That is why we have more doctors, but they’re from abroad.
Wasn’t there something years ago about Clinton, and medical schools, criteria, who could, and who couldn’t? Seems to me they destroyed our health care right under our noses.
Basically the problems all started in 1965 with one Senator named Kennedy, and a party of conniving commies calling themselves Democrats intent on plotting the course to our destruction we are now scratching our heads, and clucking about.
Democrats, Kennedy, and the Clintons. A team made in HELL.
This is no secret. As it stands the economy is running on cheap and foreign labor as at least 47% of Americans of every socioeconomic class is unemployed,under employed or on the gov-tit.
List of 90's news articles about paying hospitals to not train doctors.
Without infinity 3rd world immigration forever, we will all die!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry. No way am I coming out of retirement. I have had it with telling drug seekers why they can’t have any (at least from me).
Why are we taking all of these doctors from foreign countries? That does seem like a righteous thing to do for either us or them. We need to be educating our own with good jobs. The medical community has always stymied and choked the availability of a medical education system for Americans by choice.
Correction: That does NOT seem like a righteous thing to do for either us or them.
Great book: Paul Starr’s “Social Transformation of American Medicine.” It took 75 years to recover from the glut of doctors the Civil War produced.
You would think, but eight years of college, coupled with four or more years of residency, thrown in with six figure debt allowing you to work in high stress and high regulation environments makes the career of plumbing more appealing.
This is a lie. Moreover many of the foreign trained doctors and nurses are horrible
Here is an interesting take on the role of government in causing the “shortage” of US-trained physicians:
https://mises.org/library/how-government-helped-create-coming-doctor-shortage
drs work hard and have to be smart....but sometimes you look at teachers with their fluffy degrees and all the time off and perks and you wonder is it worth going to college/med school/being an intern....and the money it costs...
lets face it...we've made liberal arts a better job than the hard sciences..
Sounds interesting, but it’s not in my library.
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