Immigration Policies are Slowing Flow of Healthcare Workers

Medically underserved areas are paying the price of the war on terrorism, according to Modern Healthcare. About a quarter of all U.S doctors are foreign-born, and about 12 percent of registered nurses.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture withdrew its sponsorship of a program that brought doctors to America under the J-1 visa program and kept them in the country.

Another agency, the Department of Health and Human Services, relaunched the program in July 2003, but it’s a scaled-back version, and a much smaller number of medical professionals are involved.