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To: FITZ
And one other point: Other countries are bemoaning their 'Brain Drain' to the United States. Who comes out ahead in that deal?
21 posted on 03/16/2003 6:16:24 AM PST by SolutionsOnly
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To: SolutionsOnly
Other countries are bemoaning their 'Brain Drain' to the United States. Who comes out ahead in that deal?

Not necessarily us. For example --I live near the Mexican border, their better doctors often come here because they make more here. Then their patients feel they must come here too because the quality might be better --but very few come here with insurance or money so we end up having to provide free care. It's better on the Canadian border because the Canadians don't have that much of a brain drain going on and so have a more stable well-off country. When a brain drain is severe, it just makes for a lot of instability and worsening poverty and ultimately that isn't helpful to us.

24 posted on 03/16/2003 6:20:35 AM PST by FITZ
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