Time to start making it more attractive to become doctors. Start with tort reform and malpractice insurance reform.
More “Who’s supposed to pick our cotton?”.
It’s market forces. You need more doctors they will produce more doctors
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.
Without infinity 3rd world immigration forever, we will all die!!!!!!!!!!!
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.
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
I’m curious.
Is there anywhere that lists
the percentage of immigrant health care workers vs the percentage of native American health care workers when it is a choice between
- Socialist Single Payer healthcare
- Corporatist Welfare to big insurance and big Hospital corps.
- Capitalist competition and freedom to choose
News media reports that in the past 8 years Physicians have shifted from 53% against single payer to 53% acceptable to single payer. Yet why is it so few immigrant physicians accept Medicaid? Is any group of physicians logically consistent? Or are almost all of them hypocrites?
There are also more illegals to be cared for on the public dime, more people too lazy to work, and fewer opportunities for anyone who wants to work than at any other point in time.
More Fake News!!!
PAY UP !
if you want fruit pickers. Or else get another job.
Tired of subsidizing big farms who never opened a lemonade stand.
Cool. End Welfare.
Addicted to not having to pay taxes for hiring a citizen. The VA was the first to go.
Re: “In a sense, we rely on imported physicians like we rely on foreign oil.”
Baloney!
The same thing is happening in USA medicine that is happening in USA software engineering.
We import hundreds of thousands of completely “average” software engineers and general practice physicians from Third World countries.
Almost all of those Third World engineers and physicians are looking for a Green Card and Citizenship.
Consequently, they eagerly accept lower wages, fewer benefits, and longer hours.
“Average” American college students are not stupid. They make the completely rational decision NOT to compete against Third World immigrants.
The only reason we have a “shortage” of software engineers and GP physicians is because of low wages, massive LEGAL immigration, and 1 million H-1B work visas.