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Those folks can depart the system and we’ll put an express lane visa in for doctors who want to immigrate to the US. Lots of highly educated healthcare professionals in the world who would want to immigrate to the US and aren’t anchored to unreasonably high wages.

Those doctors you mention picked the wrong career for fat cash and prestige. We can’t allow a broken system to continue because of previously made bad decisions.

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Interesting solution - I don't know how the visa system works but if these doctors decided to switch careers after they got here in order to provide better for themselves/their family is there anything stopping them? It still seems like it's misaligning the incentive structure to produce the desired results.

At the base of the issue is that being a doctor is a difficult, stressful job that requires high intelligence and sometimes even high physical dexterity. While it's nice to think that people would choose to do it because it's moral to take care of people, I don't think it's fair to expect that these people wouldn't want to be appropriately financially rewarded for their gifted skillset.

Ah yes, the best of both worlds; socialized medicine provided at rock bottom prices through mass immigration undercutting the salaries of US citizens that are paying billions towards non-dischargable loans taken in good faith.

Sarcasm of course. In my opinion, these are two great ideas for getting Trump re-elected.

You can always count on America to do the right thing after having exhausted all other options.

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