Anonymous wrote:For the record, I got into Penn and not AKU.

Legacy and or wealth family?

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Anonymous wrote:The issue is that residency programs are largely funded by Medicaid dollars. This is US taxpayer money. Hence the fact that one American med school grad goes unmatched while have hundreds of thousands of dollars in student loans is a travesty. Further, these foreign educated doctors typically do not have the same degree of school loans.

It a completing hosing of American citizen med school students

We are broken. We do not have enough doctors and yet Our own children get replaced

Our culture is broken.

This is not capitalism it’s a monopoly

Maybe our own children don't have as good an education or work ethic.

Anonymous wrote:Totally understand that but the unmatched US doctors should not have gone to medical school. They just are not smart enough. The foreign born ones that make it are the crème de la crème. This is a capitalistic society.

The only way to correct this is to offer merit-based scholarships to med school.

Are the foreign ones truly smarter or just more willing to work like slaves?

Anonymous wrote:The issue is that residency programs are largely funded by Medicaid dollars. This is US taxpayer money. Hence the fact that one American med school grad goes unmatched while have hundreds of thousands of dollars in student loans is a travesty. Further, these foreign educated doctors typically do not have the same degree of school loans.

It a completing hosing of American citizen med school students

We are broken. We do not have enough doctors and yet Our own children get replaced

Our culture is broken.

This is not capitalism it’s a monopoly

Totally understand that but the unmatched US doctors should not have gone to medical school. They just are not smart enough. The foreign born ones that make it are the crème de la crème. This is a capitalistic society.

The only way to correct this is to offer merit-based scholarships to med school.

The issue is that residency programs are largely funded by Medicaid dollars. This is US taxpayer money. Hence the fact that one American med school grad goes unmatched while have hundreds of thousands of dollars in student loans is a travesty. Further, these foreign educated doctors typically do not have the same degree of school loans.

It a completing hosing of American citizen med school students

For the record, I got into Penn and not AKU.

Anonymous wrote:I challenge you to send 10 of your best ones to pass the entrance exam of Agha Khan University in Pakistan. Let's see what merit means here. Btw AKU allows foreign candidates. So, it will not be an exception.

+100

I challenge you to send 10 of your best ones to pass the entrance exam of Agha Khan University in Pakistan. Let's see what merit means here. Btw AKU allows foreign candidates. So, it will not be an exception.

Anonymous wrote:Here’s an internal medicine residency program in Texas where all 13 residents are foreigners. Six of the thirteen are from Pakistan.

and thousands for US citizens were not matched and rejected

This is not capitalism.

The Match is a centralized hiring monopoly that has consolidated control over America’s medical residency market through anticompetitive conduct and burdensome restraints. Created to
limit the effects of competition between teaching hospitals and residency programs, the Match prevents residents from negotiating the terms of their employment, creates uncertainty for
programs and applicants, “binds” both sides to its decisions, and even regulates the hiring process for “unmatched” applicants. This results in the suppression of resident salaries, uniformity in wages across geographic regions and specialties, long hours and poor working conditions, restricted mobility and freedom of choice, and a bottleneck that contributes to
America’s growing doctor shortage.

While this monopolistic placement system and the anticompetitive restraints it imposes on the medical residency market would typically raise concerns under U.S. antitrust law, the Match is protected by a special-interest exemption. In response to ongoing litigation, the Match partnered with other medical institutions to lobby Congress for antitrust immunity. Included as a last-minute rider to an unrelated bill, the Match’s antitrust exemption insulates it from judicial scrutiny and bars the use of Match-related evidence in antitrust proceedings. This carve-out undermines the competitive process, locks applicants and programs into a one-size-fits-all
placement regime, and artificially constrains the pathway from medical school to the physician workforce to the detriment of residents, patients, and the American public.

The Committee on the Judiciary is entrusted with the “[p]rotection of trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies.”470 This report documents how the Match’s monopolistic placement system, shielded by statutory immunity, harms residents, impedes patients’ access to care, and constrains the growth of America’s physician workforce.

The Committee will continue its oversight to inform legislative reforms that could help restore competition in the medical residency market.

https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/medical-residency-report-final.pdf

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Anonymous wrote:Here’s an internal medicine residency program in Texas where all 13 residents are foreigners. Six of the thirteen are from Pakistan.

and thousands for US citizens were not matched and rejected

Have you asked yourself why this is happening? You may not like the answer.

Because they are cheaper


Over 6,000 American-trained doctors — including U.S. MDs, DOs, and U.S. citizens who studied abroad — did not match.

Meanwhile, nearly 6,000 non-U.S. citizen foreign-trained physicians (FTP) were placed in U.S. residency positions — many of which are funded by Medicare, using taxpayer dollars.

Things have only gotten worse since we began studying and reporting on this crisis. For instance, in 2021, 4,356 FTPs were matched to residencies at US teaching hospitals, and in 2025, that number increased to 5,864.

Anonymous wrote:America is broken because capitalism has its flaws too. Democracy and Capitalism both. It's not that they are terrible or don't work or shouldn't be used to run a country. It's that everything has pros and cons. But the US wants to turn a blind eye and focus only on the pros and not mitigate the cons. Thus, we remain a broken society. It will always be broken and the rich will only always have the "power" as they have had from the beginning of time.

The most effective, strongest, best ways always requires a blend of ingredients - it can't simply be just capitalism running the show. But it is in the US and people still will not acknowledge that it's not Dem v GOP but the influx of money that's the true power broker.

+1

Very well said. Capitalism can work when the cons are mitigated but it clearly doesn't work well for the average person when the ultra-rich have used their wealth to gain more power by corrupting the two major political parties in control of a two party political system.

Anonymous wrote:The Republican Party has been trying to destroy America for decades. Donald Trump is their ultimate weapon.

Certainly seems this way.

21 trillion dollars went missing from the Us treasury from 1998-2015 largely from DOD and HUD.

The black hole with military spending is a huge problem. The Pentagon fails every audit
https://solari.com/dod-and-hud-missing-money-supporting-documentation/

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:America is broken because capitalism has its flaws too. Democracy and Capitalism both. It's not that they are terrible or don't work or shouldn't be used to run a country. It's that everything has pros and cons. But the US wants to turn a blind eye and focus only on the pros and not mitigate the cons. Thus, we remain a broken society. It will always be broken and the rich will only always have the "power" as they have had from the beginning of time.

The most effective, strongest, best ways always requires a blend of ingredients - it can't simply be just capitalism running the show. But it is in the US and people still will not acknowledge that it's not Dem v GOP but the influx of money that's the true power broker.

Influx of money? No it's the outflow of money to one foreign country that uses it to put American politicians on retainer.

You. Simply. Have. No. Clue.

Our politicians being obligated to hundreds of billions of dollars in support for Israel in exchange for hundreds of millions of dollars in campaign funding support from those with ties to Israel is a big obvious problem but as it pertains to the overall corruption in our political system, it's no more than a few drops in a big ole disgusting bucket. We've lost our GOP and Dem politicians to Satan and there is no successful way forward as long as these two awful entities are controlling our political system.

Wake the eff up people.