This seems like yet another way to hurt us.

most urban hospitals could not staff their units. I think that the Republican plan is to have the old and sick die off. Then AI can do some jobs and US workers who can't find jobs because other sectors of the economy have crashed can go into health care.
Of course "health care" administration will continue its robust growth.

Why does the US need more healthcare workers than can be sourced with its current population? Why does the Phillipines, India, Nigeria and other countries have surplus healthcare workers to population that they can part with them for US benefit?

The hospital for which I worked for three decades stopped paying time and a half for overtime. They did this retroactively. Our checks were short and they told us that we were now considered management. We were paid nothing for the first hour that we worked over and only straight time for any hours over 80 in two weeks. They got away with this for a decade, lawsuits and appeals to the labor board went nowhere. When I told other nurses that if we had a union this wouldn't happen they looked at me like I had three heads, even though the hospital was stealing from almost every nurse on almost every check. During this time the local newspaper did an investigation of the hospital district’s finances and found that more than one third of all dollars taken in by the hospital district went to administration. Naturally the hospital had difficulty finding enough US nurses, even for the "skeleton staffing" (their actual term) that they were so proud of.

and that is part of the problem. Healthcare workers coming from those countries often leave their home countries without enough workers, basically a brain, or skills, drain. It ends up that whole schools in those countries produce workers for export to the US. People who would have been doctors or engineers, etc. in those countries end up going to nursing school so that they can emigrate to the US and make more as nurses than they could have made as doctors or engineers at home. And of course the health care worker population is exported as well.

As for why there aren't enough health care workers here, it used to be considered a woman's job, the jobs used to not be well paid, and many of the jobs are unpleasant. Health care is less often considered a woman's job now and pay has increased as much as ten times since the 80's. When I graduated and passed boards in 1983 I made about $5/hr as a registered nurse in Texas, and some of my classmates made $3.50-4.00 an hour in tiny hospitals which have long since closed and were virtually the only jobs in those towns. The work is still often unpleasant though. Many people find blood, secretions, and guts difficult to handle. And treatment by administration and patients' families can be very demeaning and demanding. There is also a saying in nursing that "nurses eat their own".

Some from Eastern Europe. They are qualified Dentists in their home country and just need the practical hours and testing to get a US dental license. It would be easy pickings for ICE..
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