[Bella_Bru]

What's the solution? Why go over to South Africa and poach off their top nurses and give them $20/hr to work here in the states. So the H1b monster extends from the IT sector to nursing.

Yup, and when South Africa is screrwed because they don't have enough health care workers, we'll end up giving them money.

[lelio]

Yup, and when South Africa is screrwed because they don't have enough health care workers, we'll end up giving them money.
Its a wacky new version of colonialism -- we take their best and the brightest out of the country and instead of someone there profiting from it (like the sale of a natural good) they get money from us in the form of humanitarian aid.
And the ultimate victims? The US citizens for getting lower quality health care, the US nurses for getting a lower wage, the US citizens again for paying taxes to go back to the donor country, and the citizens of the foreign country as they have no qualified nurses left.
Who wins is left as an exercise.