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Residency funding, and the fact that even fully trained foreign doctors have to redo residency to practice here. An American can marry a foreign doctor with 10

• willcipriano 3y ago
  Globalism for thee, protectionism for me.
  • moron4hire 3y ago
    That's not an example of globalism hypocrisy
    • willcipriano 3y ago
      Bring in foreign programmer: here's dozens of laws and programs to make that easy. Bring in foreign doctor: here's dozens of laws and programs to make that hard. Bring in foreign low skill labor: Laws? No human is illegal!
      • JumpCrisscross 3y ago
        Coding, farming and medicine have different stakes (in general). It makes sense to be pickier with the last than the first two.
        • willcipriano 3y ago
          Millions are protected to die simply due to lack of access to medical care. The doctors would have to be actively malicious to be worse than the alternative of no doctor.
          • JumpCrisscross 3y ago
            > doctors would have to be actively malicious to be worse than the alternative of no doctor There is so much low-hanging fruit to pick before we create a two-class medical system. Also, “millions” is hyperbole. It’s tens of thousands a year [1]. Two million or so in a lifetime. But half as many as from alcohol [2]. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2323087/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2323087/ [2] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm
            • willcipriano 3y ago
              Feel free to at any point in the last twenty years. It wasn't done so now drastic action is required to save lives.
              • JumpCrisscross 3y ago
                > now drastic action is required to save lives You realise it’s this sort of rhetoric that inhibits moderate progress? If I wanted to kill a residency expansion proposal, and a lawmaker were saying we should let doctors trained in the worst medical systems in the world treat poor Americans, I would run that framing on billboards.
                • willcipriano 3y ago
                  I've been hearing that for twenty years. #ForceTheVote most recently. Drug reimportation under Trump. The public option with Obama. It's never the right time.
                  • JumpCrisscross 3y ago
                    > been hearing that for twenty years That extremist policy positions backfire? Yes. Because it’s consistently true. See: defund the police and abortion. What you’re suggesting is lower impact and still more radical than a public option or drug price regulation.
• nradov 3y ago
  That depends on the state. Some states such as Tennessee now offer more flexible options for foreign trained doctors to practice there. https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/993693 https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/993693