$LAHO Harvard..U.S. relies heavily on foreign-born healthcare workers
More than one in four doctors in the United States were born in another country, and a new study suggests many nurses, dentists, pharmacists, and home health aides are also immigrants.
Researchers who analyzed U.S. census data on 164,000 health care professionals found that overall, almost 17 percent weren't born in America and almost five percent were not U.S. citizens.
"The American health care system relies very heavily on individuals who were born in other countries," said senior study author Dr. Anupam Jena of Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
Past studies have focused on doctors who trained abroad, "but our research shows that skilled immigration from other countries is an important contributor to nearly every occupation within the broader health care industry," Jena said by email.
Doctors were more likely to be foreign born than other health care professionals, researchers report in JAMA.
About 29 percent of physicians were born in other countries, and almost seven percent were not U.S. citizens, the study found.
Roughly 24 percent of dentists were immigrants to the U.S., and four percent were not citizens.
Among pharmacists, 20 percent were born elsewhere and almost four percent were not citizens.
And 16 percent of registered nurses were immigrants; three percent were not citizens.
..It’s known as the “million dollar green card,” a visa program that gives wealthy people the ability to move to the United States by creating economic opportunities and employment there.
The EB-5 investor visa offers permanent U.S. residency and eventually citizenship when a person invests between US$500,000 and US$1-million in a new commercial enterprise that produces at least 10 full-time jobs
$LAHO point being its only business nothing personal, License can be rectified because selling botox is considered a drug.. war on drugs, how did that work out..FDA?
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