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Ah. The good ol’ “steal the good workers from the poor countries to serve my wealthy country that doesn’t want to invest in training its own workers” argument. What happens when those workers are tapped and/or the cost/benefit for them is not attractive? Back to square one.

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There are numerous physicians who have immigrated to the US already and are stuck working menial jobs instead of providing people with care when they are fully qualified to do so. There’s absolutely no good reason for this.

There's 1.1 million physicians in the US, and about 12.8 million worldwide. Almost all of whom are making substantially lower salaries than their American counterparts. Many more than 50% lower. Even if 10% were willing to immigrate for a huge wage boost we could replace every doctor in America multiple times over.

Huge wage boost erased by increased supply and much higher living costs. Also, I am not convinced quality is the same and language barrier results in poor communication with patients. Let other countries have their doctors and train doctors in your own country is the proper and moral solution.

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