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America doesn't have enough doctors, and closing borders will make it worse
- taxicabjesus 10y agoI have a 1965 book titled The Coming Doctor Shortage. I suspect that the doctors' guild has kept the supply of newly graduated doctors just under the number needed to keep their wages artificially higher than if there was a surplus. They import exactly the number of doctors needed to fill all positions. I had a passenger who went to visit her husband's grave twice a week. She blamed the foreign VA (veteran's administration) physician for causing his premature expiration. Edit: People tend to die when it's their time, so I don't think that the foreign doctor was necessarily to blame. I'm just saying that I think the medical system takes advantage of the perpetual shortage of doctors...
- jrnichols 10y agoBut we aren't closing the border. Doctors aren't coming in droves from those 7 countries either. They're coming from Pakistan, India, and countries not on the current list. This too sounds like "jobs Americans won't do" which we know isn't true. Right now we're seeing hospitals saying that they need to import more Filipino nurses, yet we have new nursing graduates here in the US saying that they are unable to find jobs. Sounds like a lot of high tech jobs that we supposedly need H1Bs for. We do have graduates in STEM. We have some top notch medical schools where people are graduating from. We've had a shortage of doctors for a while now, but it doesn't automatically equate to "we need more immigrants." There are plenty of high school students born & raised here that might love to go to medical school. Why can't we help them instead?