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Reducing the length of PhD programs (in the U.S. -- PhDs in Europe tend to be shorter) would have the side-effect of having even more PhD grads (of lower quality) that can't find a job.

Getting rid of tenure would facilitate mobility and increase accountability.

Current visa rules make it very easy to stay. STEM graduate students on an F-1 visa get a whopping 36 months of employment authorization in the US. Look up OPT extension. That's 3 years they can apply to get a H-1B.

In fact, getting a M.S. from a mediocre U.S. school is a popular method young people use to immigrate.

> Its not ridiculous. How can you "negotiate" when you have 0 leverage? There is no "negotiation", ever.

Why zero leverage? Government contracts contemplate volume purchasing agreements for suppliers. Many medications include alternative suppliers which can be used as leverage.

As noted by others, extremely expensive treatments for rare conditions are often not offered in socialized systems. When they are, it's often the result of a court order forcing the government to make it happen. Better pricing could allow a treatment being provided as an option to the population (by default, without necessitating a court order), which can be interesting to the pharma company due to increased sales volume.

The first and second largest public companies in the world by market cap hire a lot of H-1Bs and are not in the Bay Area and pay more than this proposed floor.

Given the evidence, every nation of the world should have a massive federally funded project on the scale of the Apollo program to put the brakes on global warming and biodiversity loss.

It blows my mind that we haven't dropped all luxuries and transitioned into the analog of a war economy to address what is literally, without hyperbole, the worst catastrophe humanity has ever seen and will likely ever see, by any definition.