Medical Training
The authors discuss the shortage of doctors and nurses and the void being filled by foreigners. Many of those foreigners receive training without the costs associated with higher education in the U.S. This is another discussion, perhaps, and it is part of the problem with health care costs in the U.S.
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Comment by G Paul Adams on July 14, 2011 at 7:30pm -
To Jason's comment: The point is many foreign medical graduates receive training at state expense in their home country. They don't have huge loans to pay back. If we don't reform our system, they will not have incentives to migrate to the US. Once here, they will likely have incentive to return home. The problem is ours to resolve, not theirs.
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Comment by Jason Hwang on July 5, 2011 at 1:18pm -
We've been VERY fortunate to have a wealth of foreign medical graduates willing to jump through so many administrative hurdles to come to the U.S. to train and work. Were it not for them, many inner-city hospitals and training programs would probably collapse. The real danger is whether at some point in the future, foreign graduates will get their U.S. training and take their talents back home. We've seen this happening elsewhere (such as the IT industry), and health care simply can't afford the loss of more manpower and resources.
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