The U.S. has a critical shortage of health care professionals: nurses, mental health therapists, and particularly physicians.
The shortage has been worsening over the years and is now at crisis levels, with wait times for care so long that people are dying waiting for care.
Approximately half of all U.S. "Health care" spending goes to BARRCOME, not care.
Since the U.S. spent $4.3 trillion on its health care system in 2022, roughly $2 trillion "Care" dollars were diverted from patients' needs to pay for health care bureaucrats, both government and insurance.
To pay for BARRCOME in the Affordable Care Act, $716 billion was taken from the Medicare Trust, money intended to pay for seniors' hospital care.
Asking Congress to pass legislation, adding more BARRCOME, to entice outside physicians to migrate here will a) cost millions, possibly billions, b) take even more money away from patient care, c) make enemies of our allies, who have their own critical doctor shortages; and d) won't work.
The current U.S. health care system with its third-party decision making disconnects physicians from their patients emotionally - no psychic reward.
https://spectator.org/feds-cant-fix-doctor-shortage-they-caused-health-care/
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