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A meaningful UBI means everyone has enough to purchase all essentials, including health care and housing. So why consider it tangential? The only thing UBI won'
by wizofaus 4y ago
A meaningful UBI means everyone has enough to purchase all essentials, including health care and housing. So why consider it tangential?
The only thing UBI won't help with is if the difficulties of providing adequate healthcare and housing are down to supply-side blockages that injecting more money into the system can't solve (e.g. the limited ability of colleges & universities to train sufficient healthcare professionals might be something that's unlikely to improve much on its own, but if one of the main reasons for this is the lack of students willing to take on the necessary financial commitment, the provision of a UBI to said students would surely help. Of course, the easier solution, which Australia relies heavily on, is to explicitly attempt to attract such professionals from overseas, but that's hardly sustainable unless other countries are already producing a surplus. But in fact many of the countries we attract healthcare professionals from already have their own shortages).
- erik_seaberg 4y agoMed schools have more graduates than there are residency positions for (which is required to be licensed to practice). For historical reasons the residency system mostly relies on federal funding, rather than supply and demand.
- naveen99 4y agoThere are 50% more us residency spots than there are us medical graduates. the situation is likely the opposite in countries that send their medical graduates to U.S. residencies. License to practice in most us states only requires a 1 years internship and passage of usmle step3. Most residencies are 3-4 years, but those are required to pass board exams and usually required for hospital credentials. But you already have a license to practice while in residency (where in fact you are already practicing medicine (although with some supervision)).
- erik_seaberg 4y agoReally? I keep hearing stories about graduates who gave up on the field because all the residency programs were full. The training license is for a limited time, right?