(Who among us will ever forget, "Remember The Maine.&quot

Anyways, we should require them to donate 4 years of community service in U.S. hospitals as repayment for liberating them from Spain and Japan.

the liberation that they fought one of the bloodiest guerilla wars against us since they wanted their own independence.

xchrom-style.

American hospitals to replace union members, as they will accept less money in salary and little, if any, benefits.

Some hospitals truly needed nurses when applicants from American nursing schools didn't apply, but there were many who have been trying to eliminate union representation.

jobs pipeline with our own U.S. citizens. Becoming a doctor in the U.S. is incredibly difficult and many qualified candidates are shut out by the limited number of positions available in medical schools (we know they are qualified candidates because the MCAT scores for entrance creep up every year - anyone making a 25 on that test assuming they have the other things in place should make a fine doctor).

I have heard it has something to do with not enough funding for residency, but I have not heard much about calling for more U.S. born doctors.

The AMA limits the number of doctors by assigning each med school their numbers they can take in every year in order to keep pay levels high for doctors once they're done with their training. If you realize who runs the accrediting agency and the consortium of med schools (the AMA), you can see the connections.

Residency programs always need more residents because they get good billing off those guys and pay them crap. Now with the hours restrictions (80 hrs/wk unless they have a really good reason to work them longer hours that week), they need more residents to fill critical areas of care for cheap. They can't fill all those slots with native-born doctors because of the med school restrictions, so they look overseas, and many of those doctors go back home after their training.

We'll hear of calling for more primary care docs (many don't go into it because the pay's the least of all the specialties), but the AMA keeps a tight rein on those med school numbers, so all we can do is convince those in med school to go into primary care.

efforts to restrict the number of doctors. My younger daughter wants to become a general (internal) surgeon. If you do go with cost containment on doctor's salaries, then you are going to have to do something about medical school costs. I am very uneasy about my daughter borrowing $200K to get a medical degree. You can't work in medical school, and instate estimated expenses are over $200K for four years. It is also very difficult to work while pursuing an undergraduate degree because of the job shadowing/volunteer work that needs to be done to be considered for medical school.

We met in college, got married after his first year of med school, and I got him through that, residency, and his first two jobs as an attending. After residency, he owed $175K in loans just for med school (he'd managed to get through college without any, thank goodness) because he'd had to defer his loans during residency.

There are grants, sure, and there are ways to pay for it, but she will still have a ton of loans by the time she's done. Med schools charge a fortune, though some are cheaper than others.

American companies will not hire Americans at living wages. It's against their mandate to pay more than the barest of minimums for anything. Unless they require wage increases for the executives.


My departed Mom's hospice was nearly completely staffed by Filipino workers , male and female. I later found out it was part of a huge chain. And don't let the American faces on the front page fool you.


http://cchnet.net/hospice/about/