Unhealthy immigration policy

Rick Perlstein's picture

Rural America is suffering a doctor shortage.

Well, that's what you get when you have a country that governs itself by the ideology that the government isn't allowed to step in to help where free market fails: no surprise.

And governs itself, too, by fear. "'The consensus seems to be that if you have a first name like Mohammed, you can forget it," Dr. Sanjay Chaube, a much-needed internist in Hurricane Katrina-ravaged Bay St. Louis, Miss.... since 9-11, the federal government has made it more difficult to qualify for the special visas and to obtain permanent residency."

Don't expect it to get any better, Dr. Chaube. We have a president who talks like this.





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