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Can't believe they didn't even mention the Monopoly Protection Certificate racket run by the government in many states:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_of_need

And never mind the huge monopoly granted to AMA certified physicians, in terms of providing medical care. Of course those guys have a huge incentive to keep as many people out of the physician pool as possible. We certainly couldn't allow competition, which might drive down costs. :~(

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The labor costs would vary from country to country. The article questions the price of a service performed by machine (that supposedly differs very little from country to country).

So why doesn't the U.S. allow doctors to immigrate to this country? The median American MD makes $143K; I'm sure that plenty of foreign doctors would love to come here and make half that.

Well, I suppose protectionism does have to have some unintended benefits for the rest of the world.

There's no specific provision disallowing immigration of doctors. For obvious reasons it's an occupation that requires licensing/certification, which is more cumbersome than many are willing to consider, and reasonable English, which is usually not a priority in medical schools around the world.

http://www.quora.com/Why-dont-we-train-more-doctors

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