Los Angeles Times: Muslim ban casualty is rural healthcare (health care, Nebraska, Pittsburgh)

[lovecrowds]

Another casualty of Trump's Muslim ban: U.S. medical training and rural healthcare - LA Times

I guess the Los Angeles Times knows more about rural America then rural Americans.

What do journalists in Los Angeles know about rural America or rural healthcare. I am sure many of these journalists consider Santa Clarita or Palmdale rural.

I must be missing out on something but other then some Indian doctors, I don't recall seeing many Muslim doctors in Nebraska and North Dakota when I had some health issues.

I myself have had medical problems in the past and all the doctors I saw in North Dakota and Nebraska were America with the exception of a few Indian doctors and a Dutch doctor.

[StillwaterTownie]

People have been moving out of rural America to the big city since at least the Great Depression.

[Ohiogirl81]

There's more to rural America than North Dakota or Nebraska. Nevermind that newspaper reporters routinely look farther afield for their news stories than their own hometowns.

But, since this was an opinion piece and not a news article, a little slack is in order.

The problems I had with the column were 1) that it was a short on direct quotes from health officials in rural areas, using data and information from a study done by two University of Pittsburgh Medical Center docctors; and 2) that the two examples of foreign doctors not permitted to return to the U.S. were both doctors practicing in urban areas - Brooklyn and Cleveland - although low-income urban neighborhoods are as underserved as rural towns, and the column does mention that. So while this executive order will indeed have an impact on rural health care, it didn't quite for this column.

[vision33r]

Fake news, I've never ever met or seen a muslim doctor. Doctors on the East Coast are either all Jewish, East European, Indian, Chinese, or Hispanic.