alt Hacker NewsYou 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.
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.
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.