Consider this statement from Jacquelyn Corley at RealClearHealth:
Roughly 5 billion people worldwide do not have access to timely, safe, and affordable surgical, anesthesia, and obstetric (SAO) care. Public health officials must shift more resources and attention toward treatment of NCDs, especially those that require surgery.
That is the context of a world in which the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany are importing as many physicians and nurses as they can from countries in which physicians nurses are desperately needed. In many cases these health care professionals are educated on the public dime of desperately poor countries.
We need to be an exporter of care not an importer.
We kind of do export, bu tit is limited to our drugs and tech. Not really sure how a doc who pays $400,000 of their medical education is going to pay that back by making20k in some third world country.
Steve