Not really: the USA just needs to hand lots more foreigners with medical degrees a work permit.I'd be curious what the plan to massively increase the supply of doctors is - it's a lot easier to crank up drug production or imaging equipment production than it is to crank up doctor production, after all.
The USA has healthcare rationing already: uninsured (i.e. poor) people can go fuck themselves. Granted, for the rich or otherwise well-insured, US healthcare is arguably the best in the world. And yet its overall healthcare outcomes are worse, for much higher cost. In fact, it pays roughly twice as much as many European countries that offer better quality service in terms of the national average. There are many reasons for this (inefficient bureaucracy, worker shortages = high salaries, drug costs, etc.) but some of it is simply inefficiency: in practice, the USA healthcare system actually spends a shit-ton of money on things that offer minimal to zero value benefit - unless you count rich people feeling pampered as a benefit.You either have to have rationing and extended wait times or you have to massively increase supply if you massively increase the number of people meant to receive things.
I've heard stories like this:Not really: the USA just needs to hand lots more foreigners with medical degrees a work permit.
Okay, they'll need to pass USMLE and perhaps other tests, so it would still take a few years. Although even then it doesn't absolutely have to: if really desired, some or all of that could be waived for doctors coming from certain countries where the medical qualifications and practice were deemed of sufficient standard. I severely doubt the average Australian or Swiss medical doctor is significantly inferior to the average American medical doctor.
That's theoretical, of course: it would admittedly be very difficult to do, because US doctors would shit a collective brick. Whilst their objection would undoubtedly be phrased in terms of endangering patient safety, what it would be endangering a great deal more is the artificial scarcity of medical doctors, which helps keep medical salaries (and status) eye-wateringly high.
Of course, the other reason the USA doesn't train anything like enough doctors is simply because it's incredibly expensive to train as a medical doctor, so the state pays for part of it. Except Americans really hate paying taxes, so the government is correspondingly stingy, and this creates a funding bottleneck. Which the USA compensates for by hiring foreign doctors.
The USA has healthcare rationing already: uninsured (i.e. poor) people can go fuck themselves. Granted, for the rich or otherwise well-insured, US healthcare is arguably the best in the world. And yet its overall healthcare outcomes are worse, for much higher cost. In fact, it pays roughly twice as much as many European countries that offer better quality service in terms of the national average. There are many reasons for this (inefficient bureaucracy, worker shortages = high salaries, drug costs, etc.) but some of it is simply inefficiency: in practice, the USA healthcare system actually spends a shit-ton of money on things that offer minimal to zero value benefit - unless you count rich people feeling pampered as a benefit.
Bear in mind that medicine has lots of different fields. After initial qualifying, physicians have to specialise, and that speciality training takes years. Thus a cardiologist cannot readily convert into a primary care physician or vice versa - it'll take years. Thus there can be an excess in some fields and a shortage in others, which is important to consider when thinking about a "glut". The basic reality is that the USA brings in huge numbers of doctors from abroad, meaning that overall it does not train enough of its own.I've heard stories like this:
" In an effort to reduce a glut of physicians in the United States, the federal government will pay training hospitals hundreds of millions of dollars not to train doctors, The Washington Post reported Sunday. "
So they gonna drink that or let it stay in their fridge forever? This is beyond weird and just straight up disgusting.
... where are they getting Vance's sperm from? Is he selling it off as merchandise or something?
So they gonna drink that or let it stay in their fridge forever? This is beyond weird and just straight up disgusting.
It's presumably just condensed milk, or lotion, or whatever other viscous white fluid that can pass for sperm. Still weird tho.... where are they getting Vance's sperm from? Is he selling it off as merchandise or something?
That might backfire badly if it irritates Swift and she makes her disagreement with these claims public.POS Trump is lying again. I may not be a Taylor Swift fan, but don't pull her into this. She ain't voting for Trump.
Or the picture could just be fake in general...It's presumably just condensed milk, or lotion, or whatever other viscous white fluid that can pass for sperm. Still weird tho.
Is that a delusional psycho or a cynical farmer of fake internet points?A pertinent comment worthy of copypasta...
From what I've read the pictures are most likely real (or at least aren't AI generated), however it was probably just a couple of the cups getting passed around and people taking pictures with the same cup over and over again, rather than a bunch of people buying or making cups to pose with.Or the picture could just be fake in general...
Is it? Is it unusual to take a picture with a sex-comedy prop?...but the fact that people didn't feel weird about posing with a cup of fake JD Vance sperm is still pretty fucking weird.
I'll be honest, this stuff has actually put me off Tim Walz a bit. I was for Walz as the pick, in part just for not being Shapiro, but also for seeming to be an honest man (relative to the rest). Like, if you look at policy, he's probably further from me than most Democrats even, but if he can say he'll do things, get elected, and then actually do them, I'll take it. I'd take an honest socialist over a scheming liberal given the choice.
...they're being weird again.
A number of creepy right wing guys have a weird obsession with her. Usually it's at least partly to slag her off to get attention. Andrew Tate and Kid Rock and Kanye West, for example. The sex thing, yeah, probably.I was also interested it saying that Trump seems to have a bit of an obsession with Swift. Firstly, the narcissist in him probably can't help but enviously dwell on her fanbase and social media numbers. Secondly, I can't help but think that a lot of it is sexual fantasy: he's totally imaging himself banging her.
Some probably because she's got blonde hair and blue eyes, so they're annoyed that she's not the pin-up for white nationalism.A number of creepy right wing guys have a weird obsession with her.