tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202804909803677380.post6838555256353026558..comments2024-03-28T08:37:14.025-07:00Comments on Condemned to DEBT: St. James School of Medicine settles with the FTC: Should Foreign Medical Schools Participate in the Federal Student Loan Program?Richard Fosseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915307718139521622noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202804909803677380.post-83575743570085289242022-11-09T00:22:45.163-08:002022-11-09T00:22:45.163-08:00Thank you for sharing such great thoughts. Very im...Thank you for sharing such great thoughts. Very impressiveHarvey Selfhttps://singcleanmedical.com/product-category/antigen-test-kit/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202804909803677380.post-71914368328907925202022-11-07T12:44:23.285-08:002022-11-07T12:44:23.285-08:00I have myself wondered about your first question, ...I have myself wondered about your first question, "why is the federal government loaning students money to attend foreign medical schools?" Maybe the answer is related to your second question, "Doesn't the United States have enough medical schools operating inside the country?" No, the US doesn't produce enough of its own medical professionals -- for over one-hundred years the AMA has fought to keep those numbers as low as possible, and now we are paying the price. <br />PS. I just saw this bit of wisdom regarding the health care system that I wanted to pass along. I am certain that readers will be able to confirm parts of the process that Doctorow describes:<br />"This is the problem with monopolies: once there's a monopoly in your supply chain, everyone else in the supply chain has to form a monopoly or a cartel, or the monopoly will devour them. That's how the US got its infinitely cursed health-care system. Big Pharma merged to monopoly and price-gouged hospitals. Hospitals formed regional monopolies to fight pharma prices – and then gouged the insurers. The insurers merged with one another and divided up the country like the Pope dividing up the New World, and fought hospital pricing.<br />The whole health supply chain is monopolized, except for the patients at one end (paying higher prices for worse care) and the health care workers at the other end (getting paid less to work under worse conditions). The giants that run the industry may fight one another over how to divide the pie, but they all agree that we should get crumbs."<br />Cory Doctorow on American Health Care System 11-7-2022<br />https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/07/random-penguins/#if-you-wanted-to-get-there-i-wouldnt-start-from-hereAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com