{"id":1301113,"date":"2022-02-15T21:38:02","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T02:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1301113"},"modified":"2022-02-15T21:38:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T02:38:07","slug":"bombshell-testimony-7k-u-s-doctors-sidelined-every-year-by-foreigners-winning-taxpayer-funded-residencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bombshell-testimony-7k-u-s-doctors-sidelined-every-year-by-foreigners-winning-taxpayer-funded-residencies\/","title":{"rendered":"Bombshell Testimony: 7K U.S. Doctors Sidelined Every Year by Foreigners Winning Taxpayer-Funded Residencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbombshell-testimony-7k-u-s-doctors-sidelined-every-year-by-foreigners-winning-taxpayer-funded-residencies%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1301113&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1217949501-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Every year, more than 7,000 American citizens and green card-holders lose out on United States taxpayer-funded residencies to foreign nationals despite having earned their degrees as medical graduate physicians, bombshell congressional testimony reveals.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Lynn with Doctors Without Jobs unveiled the data to the House Judiciary Committee\u2019s&nbsp;Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship on Tuesday, sounding the alarm on \u201cgraduate medical education profiteers.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cEach year, over 7,000 U.S. citizens and lawful permanent resident medical graduate physicians \u2014 with include seniors and prior-year graduates \u2014 do not match for a medical residency, all of whom are qualified, ready, and willing doctors who have been sidelined and are waiting to serve their communities now,\u201d Lynn said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>In 2021, over 4,000 non-citizen foreign-trained physicians received residencies in the U.S.<\/strong> This is an enormous increase when 10 years prior, 2,700 foreign-trained physicians received residencies. <strong>Between 2011 and 2021, more than 40,000 non-U.S. citizens, foreign-trained physicians were given U.S. taxpayer-funded residencies. Each residency costs taxpayers $150,000 a year<\/strong>. We are subsidizing foreign doctors. [Emphasis added]\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) noted in the hearing, more than 10,000 American doctors remain unmatched for residencies, while about 10,000 healthcare workers have been fired in recent months over Chinese coronavirus vaccine mandates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s 20,000 right there and yet we\u2019re told the only answer is to import more foreign nationals,\u201d McClintock said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Lynn described a number of instances where unmatched American doctors have contemplated suicide as they struggle to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in student loans on minimum wage salaries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know of at least several that I can tell you \u2026 we talk about suicide, well imagine you\u2019re saddled with over $400,000 in debt and your income is from Uber as well as working a job that might be paying $15 an hour,\u201d Lynn said.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, alone, U.S. employers sought to import more than 4,200 foreign medical workers to take doctor positions. That same year, the federal government rubber-stamped more than 5,000 labor condition applications to keep foreign medical workers in American jobs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFailure to prioritize Americans is emblematic of our medical establishment preferring to import foreign healthcare workers instead of making necessary investments that would broaden medical education and improve our healthcare infrastructure,\u201d Lynn said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Every area of American endeavor has been impacted by relentless importation of foreign workers starting with lower-paying work, seasonal hospitality workers, and then onto manufacturing to technology workers and now, to doctors<\/strong> who spend at least eight years and hundreds of thousands of dollars to practice the healing arts \u2014 a very specialized profession \u2014 only to be sidelined and saddled with debt they are unlikely to be able to pay off if they can\u2019t practice medicine. [Emphasis added]\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Congress ought to open more residency positions and match all American doctors to those residencies before considering importing foreign nationals at taxpayer costs, Lynn said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>In 2020, unmatched American doctors and American medical <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/07\/09\/unmatched-u-s-doctors-urge-trump-to-prioritize-americans-over-foreigners-for-medical-residencies\/\">graduates urged<\/a> then-President Trump to prioritize Americans for residency spots over foreign nationals. Many graduates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/06\/17\/american-medical-grads-to-trump-halt-h-1b-j-1-visas-no-shortage-of-doctors\/\">highlighted that<\/a> while they spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on student loans getting a medical degree in the U.S., foreign nationals who take residency spots often have their education paid for.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t have a playing field where people from India can score high on an exam and have preference while we are driving Uber and doing Amazon Flex in order to pay our bills,\u201d an unmatched American doctor said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than prioritizing unmatched American doctors, Republicans and Democrats alike <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lankford.senate.gov\/news\/press-releases\/lankford-supports-healthcare-workforce-resilience-act\">have backed plans<\/a> to import tens of thousands more foreign nationals to take doctor and nursing jobs at U.S. hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>Those Senators have included former Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) along with Sens.&nbsp;Dick Durbin (D-IL), Todd Young (R-IN), Chris Coons (D-DE), John Cornyn (R-TX), Patrick Leahy (D-VT), James Lankford (R-OK), Michael Bennet (D-CO), Roy Blunt (R-MO), Tom Carper (D-DE), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Joni Ernst (R-IA), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Angus King (I-ME), Jerry Moran (R-KS), Rand Paul (R-KY), Jackie Rosen (D-NV), Mike Rounds (R-SD), Tom Udall (D-NM), and Ron Wyden (D-OR).<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart<\/em><em>&nbsp;New<\/em><em>s.<\/em><em>&nbsp;Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JxhnBxnder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">here<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, more than 7,000 American citizens and green card-holders lose out on United States taxpayer-funded residencies to foreign nationals despite having earned their degrees as medical graduate physicians, bombshell &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1301113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1301113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1301113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1301113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1301113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}