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Not so much that, but doctors, ATC, and other skilled labor the US needs and can't replace with AI.

Is it better to scale back hospitals and airports instead of filling those jobs?

The US would have more doctors tomorrow if they invested in US citizens and not foreign workers..

Out of taxpayer's pocketbooks? The Fed isn't running a charity, there's 40 trillion dollars of debt that we all share.

The country works for the citizens or it isn't a functioning country. They can take the 40 trillion from the people leveraging H-1Bs over domestic labor.

training up doctors takes ~10 years

the current administration and republican party regularly put down the very institutions needed to do what you want

there's a saying about cake that is appropriate here

Better start tomorrow, and no one but you mentioned the current admin or the republican party. Projecting much?

Yes, and the people saying let them eat cake are the same ones promoting H-1Bs, they will end the same.

> no one but you mentioned the current admin or the republican party

does not make it irrelevant, the stance you have is the same they have, while they also have another stance that works directly against it, I don't know your stance on universities

the saying about cake I meant to imply was about getting to have it and eat it too, as applied to the party in power holding views that work against each other

I personally think that nurse practitioners is something to emphasize, maybe more so than doctors, for the non-emergency medical care that underdeliver for in this country while paying twice as much as the next closest country

I'd start with the basics here, reading and math competency levels are largely headed the wrong direction. Mississippi has done wonders for their reading, re: phonics, and I hope other states follow suite

So what? If you don’t bother the train anyone within your own country, then what is the point? How do you improve if you don’t build from within? See China if you want to know what happens when you build from within. Infrastructure-wise they are killing the Western world.

America is not alone in failing to build infrastructure from within their country most just make excuses. All along the way (the last sixty years) many Western countries have deindustrialize themselves which mainly helps the upper income groups, but doesn’t help the average wage earners in any of those countries.

Importing H1B’s does not help the target country in the long term. All it does is postpone building infrastructure, industry within and raising the incomes of people within the destination country, the overall collapse of the target country still happens.

They can be skilled doctors back in their own countries. I want prospects for my children.

Here's a prospect for them; war. Do you like that? It's where they're headed, living here.

Fact is, your kid could start working 40 hours a week at age 18 for the next 50 years, and still not receive a proper pension. The government won't have any money left for them, and even if they did the economy probably wouldn't be ready to pay it back. Their brilliant future is enlistment in a war half a world a way, to bleed on foreign soil and see their government ignore them. Hope they're planning accordingly.

This is absolutely hilarious and so incredibly misguided... I promise you that Mohamed the neurosurgeon is not the reason your children are not able to become doctors.

See China, Korea or Japan, Mohammed, who?

Omar Yahgi, a nobel laureate in chemistry, is moving from the US to China, originally from Jordan

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/science/nobel-winning-us-...

Here's one on Japan and foreign workers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49734139

It's worth noting that we already have a shortage of doctors and many that are choosing not to practice. Radiology is a well known example

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