[BobaFloutist]

Same issue as rural doctors, to be honest. It's hard to pay an American with a medical degree enough to live and work in that environment, so if we want to keep rural hospitals (and independent practices) staffed, we need to allow immigrants to do the work.

The alternative isn't that rural communities get doctors born in the US, it's that they get no doctors.

[m463]

I thought the medical board could assign doctors to locations.

(But I don't know how it really works, maybe it was residency only?)