This is a point for the nativists. We do not, to put it mildly, have a surplus of qualified, affordable docs in every area.
But, every year, something like 30K MCAT takers with scores above the ACCEPTED Black mean - i.e. top 48% - are denied even a med school slot. Later resulting gaps are filled by foreigners: good, nice people...but by no means better qualified than the 2nd tier of Midwestern white applicants.
Any defense of this beyond guild interest?
BREAKING: Rochester General Hospital in New York hired 82 resident doctors.
80 are foreign workers on H-1B or J-1 visas.
Only 2 are Americans.
98% of the residency slots went to visa workers- mostly from countries with documented USMLE cheating.
Americans got 2 jobs.