it is an overlapping issue, because this manufactured shortage is creating pressure to find other eays to meet demand, and this demand is only going to increase due to demographics, and access to healthcare for more people in near future.
so if there is a shortage then there are only 3 ways to handle that shortage, and I am not talking healthcare specifically, but anything
- increase capacity organically…and of course increasing capacity will in future generate pressure on US physicians salaries, you have to make infrastructure investments ike have more facilities or increase capacity of existing programs to graduate more docs..etc etc
2a) increase capacity inorganically- by importing practitioners
2b) increase capacity inorganically- by outsourcing/offshoring jobs e.g. for some radiologists
- have nurse practitioners and medical assistants handle more routine stuff, like we now see at CVS pharmacies where for simple stuff like cough, flu, ear and eye infections, the nurse practitioner can see a patient
of course we also have option 4, which is to do nothing and let it be.
lastly while status of US Vs. India can not be considered quid pro quo, there is no harm in learning from what has worked in other places and what has not rather than discounting it wholesale.