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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]when someone claims they need H1B for Doctors, remember this ....

They Passed Over American Doctors

The biggest lie in the U.S. healthcare debate is that we do not have enough American doctors. The truth is simple. We produce them. We just refuse to train them.

In 2024 nearly 20 percent of U.S. medical school seniors failed to match into a residency. That is 8,869 qualified graduates who spent years in school, passed their boards, took on massive debt, and still never got the one thing they need to practice medicine.

At the same time more than 9,700 foreign trained doctors matched into U.S. residencies in 2025. Many hospitals prefer them because they accept lower pay, longer hours, and have no leverage to complain. You cannot practice medicine in the United States without residency. So if Americans are locked out, someone else will fill the spot.

The choke point is not medical school. It is the federally funded residency cap. Congress has not increased these slots fast enough while medical school enrollment has exploded. The result is a rigged bottleneck that leaves American doctors unmatched while taxpayer dollars train replacements from overseas.

The Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2025 would add 14,000 residency slots over seven years. Even that will not undo years of damage, but it is proof that Washington knows the system is broken.

Until Congress expands residency slots at the scale required, the United States will keep graduating qualified doctors who never get to practice. Then hospitals will turn around and say there is a physician shortage and use it as an excuse to import more foreign labor.

It is not a shortage. It is policy.

Citations
• AMA, Biggest Match Day Ever, 2025 data
• AAMC, Medical School Enrollment Growth vs Residency Bottleneck
• Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates, IMG Match Statistics 2025
• Norton Rose Fulbright, Congressional Inquiry into Residency Accreditation and Matching Practices
• People Magazine, U.S. Graduate Denied Residency, 2024

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What?!? If these residency slots are really limited and we have kids successfully graduating from medical schools and ready to go into them why in the world are we giving out visas to people to take those slots instead??? The more I learn about the current visa details and how it is actually used the more frustrated I get at it. Just as we do NOT need thousands and thousands of H1B tech visas now, we do not need so may foreign doctors when US med students cannot even fit into residencies. This is nuts. [/quote]

Foreign doctors may be filling the residency slots that American medical graduates don’t want (family medicine, internal medicine, primary care). Some foreign doctors have to practice in an underserved area afterwards if theyre on a J1 visa?[/quote]

Can you read?

That is NOT what is happening

Read about Resident physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2025

Please educate yourself [/quote]

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