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Comment by joe_mamba

6 hours ago

You can't grow doctors on tree just because you now get more funding. It take 6+ years to train a doctor while people can cross a border and grow the population right now.

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Dylan16807  6 hours ago

Are doctors usually underrepresented among legal immigrants? I could see it actually helping out with our self-inflicted doctor supply problems.

Also the "all immigration happens overnight" plan is obviously a bad way to handle things. That lag wouldn't be a big deal if we 'merely' instantly doubled the rate we issue green cards and ramped up from there, just to make up some numbers.

  • joe_mamba  3 hours ago

    >Are doctors usually underrepresented among legal immigrants?

    Definitely.

    >I could see it actually helping out with our self-inflicted doctor supply problems.

    Only if they are overrepresented which they aren't(in Europe at least). You need to actually work hard to convince doctors to come to your country and not others, but with other migrants you need the opposite. Convince them to stop coming.