More of the same here in the United States. This time it's with a severe nurses shortage.
Do whatever it takes to preserve and help the hospitals/medical professionals' lobby while draining nurses from developing countries. Forget about those in poor and underdeveloped countries, and help greedy hospitals make more money at the expense of others.
As the United States runs short of nurses, senators are looking abroad. A little-noticed provision in their immigration bill would throw open the gate to nurses and, some fear, drain them from the world's developing countries.
The exodus of nurses from poor to rich countries has strained health systems in the developing world, which are already facing severe shortages of their own. Many African countries have begun to demand compensation for the training and loss of nurses and doctors who move away.
Public health experts in poor countries, told about the proposal in recent days, reacted with dismay and outrage, coupled with doubts that their nurses would resist the magnetic pull of the United States, which sits at the pinnacle of the global labor market for nurses.
Tags: [U.S. Plan to Lure Nurses May Hurt Poor Nations], [provision in their immigration bill would throw open the gate to nurses and, some fear, drain them from the world's developing countries], [removes the limit on the number of nurses who can immigrate], [Filipino people will suffer because the U.S. will get all our trained nurses], [American Hospital Association], [American Nurses Association], [potentially worsening the shortage of health workers in poor countries], [Physicians for Human Rights]
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