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More than 6,500 recent American medical graduates are currently sitting idle, having been passed over by residency programs around the country. At the same time, the government continues to issue thousands of visas to foreign doctors each year, *despite the medical talent languishing at home.
Relying on foreign physicians was difficult to justify even before the pandemic. But at a moment of crisis-level unemployment, and crippling demand for medical care, letting an army of American doctors sit on their hands is bonkers.
There is a shortage of doctors in rural areas. Many rural communities are under served.
I am not saying you are wrong, but the system is broken and it needs to be fixed. AMA policies have a lot to do with this. There is simply no 'one size fits all' answer to these problems.
There is a shortage of doctors in rural areas. Many rural communities are under served.
I am not saying you are wrong, but the system is broken and it needs to be fixed. AMA policies have a lot to do with this. There is simply no 'one size fits all' answer to these problems.
What AMA policies?
The AMA has lobbied for increasing postgraduate medical education in the US for years.
Medical schools cannot graduate more doctors if there are not enough residencies for them, which Congress has refused to fund.
There is a shortage of doctors in rural areas. Many rural communities are under served.
I am not saying you are wrong, but the system is broken and it needs to be fixed. AMA policies have a lot to do with this. There is simply no 'one size fits all' answer to these problems.
Agree the system is either broken, or is working extremely well for the tiniest number of people.
To clarify: is the for-profit part of the American healthcare system a 'bug in the system?' or is it 'it's main feature?'
To further clarify: There are no free-market-fundamentalists (i.e. many who practice libertarianism as an absolutist religion) in a pandemic.
Covid-19 and the documented failure of the American illness profit system — We have to stop treating our doctors, nurses, healthcare workers, and ourselves this way
If you stress a system to its limits, its strengths, but also its faults and weaknesses quickly become very apparent
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