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[–] faxed@lemmy.ca -5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (9 children)

The canadian policy of poaching health care workers from other nations is truely malignant.

It's no problem to me if people want to move here for any reason. But the general idea that the health care system relies on incoming workers that have been trained and nurtured by other communities is definitionally parasitic. It puts us in a situation where we require other nations to have the kinds of problems that highly incentivize that kind of mass migration. If the Philippines solved all its problems tomorrow, it would totally destabilize the canadian health care system. It's shitty to put yourself into that kind of relationship.

Cuba sends doctors everywhere, to help those who need. Canada only sucks in doctors and nurses. A real shame.

[–] Bo7a@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Counterpoint - When I was in University more than 80% of the kids in Canadian medical school were on their way to the states the day they started their last year.

American recruiters would come up and sell their schools to Canadian doctors to be by showing them exactly how much money they would make compared to staying home.

[–] faxed@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

assuming your statistic which sounds like it's based on your personal observations is accurate. all that says is that the US has the same parasitic strategy but is better at enacting it.

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Maybe the US was better when he was in med school, but the current US government is doing its best to make immigration look very undesirable.

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