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The implication was that they could train their own doctors, not that they would import doctors from a 3rd world country.

• ceejayoz 2y ago
  Ah, yes. A famously fast process!
  • LetMePostMore 2y ago
    Faster or slower than setting up farm infra from near scratch to feed 140 million people?
    • lovich 2y ago
      It’s slower. Significantly slower. Farming is a mostly solved process now that can be automated. That’s why the labor force of agriculture went from the majority to like 2% of the population post industrialization. Being a doctor is highly incentivized financially and culturally and we haven’t seen anywhere near that level of efficiency gains of training doctors. At minimum each new doctor needs ~26 years to get to our standards. Lower it by a fuck ton, go a crazy as you want and you still are on a decade plus from deciding to mint a new dr to having your doogie bowser diagnosing people. This is the same fucking mistake the South made during the civil war[1]. The red states do not appear to understand what it takes to run a modern economy [1] “The North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical and determined people on earth - right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with.”