| ▲ | rs186 4 days ago |
| The nurse that helped save your life at ER might be on H1B getting paid $80k a year. |
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| ▲ | jpadkins 4 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| the counterfactual is 'is there an equally qualified nurse who didn't get the position?' There is a lot of under-employment for highly qualified US citizens. |
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| ▲ | cyberax 4 days ago | parent [-] | | Because there aren't enough "equally qualified nurses". > There is a lot of under-employment for highly qualified US citizens. No, there isn't. Even with the current AI mess, the unemployment for highly-qualified software engineers is 2.8%: https://www.ciodive.com/news/june-jobs-report-comptia-data-I... The AI is now decimating the jobs for the recent CS graduates. | | |
| ▲ | jpadkins 4 days ago | parent [-] | | under-employment != unemployment. I carefully selected my words. And you switched from nurses to highly-qualified engineers. qualified nurses are having to get jobs at retail, etc to survive. For some sectors, it's importing cheap labor (aka wage suppression). | | |
| ▲ | cyberax 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | | The same applies to nurses. The nurse shortage has been basically non-stop since 80-s: https://nursejournal.org/articles/the-us-nursing-shortage-st... | | |
| ▲ | czl 3 days ago | parent [-] | | Long term shortages are evidence of supply controls or price controls. If nurse compensation was allowed to rise to its natural level the shortages would solve themselves. High compensation pulls people into a profession. Suppressing compensation with imported labor cures a short term problem but creates a bigger long term problem. | | |
| ▲ | cyberax 3 days ago | parent [-] | | In this case, it's the evidence of the failing education system or misplaced incentives. You also are missing another possibility, the nurse jobs can just disappear and patients will be left with worse care. |
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| ▲ | bamboozled 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Hmmm, so a nurse can come from any country with any level of English and work in a US hospital without re-certification? There is a smell to this claim… |
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| ▲ | aaronnw2 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Maybe more talented Americans would become nurses if the pay met the demand. |
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| ▲ | seb1204 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | | We know that the US is not the only country with shortage in healthcare workers. Most countries with an ageing population face this. | |
| ▲ | rs186 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | We know that's not going to happen. What now? | | |
| ▲ | aianus 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | | They pay $150k for a foreign nurse and attract the best foreign nurses instead of the cheapest. | |
| ▲ | seanmcdirmid 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Eventually robots. Seriously, automation can eventually do a lot to make each nurse way more productive than they are. |
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| ▲ | cogman10 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| That nurse may have just done their 6th 12h shift as well. Which they have to do or risk deportation. |
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| ▲ | mancerayder 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Do we know what percentage of H1B's are NOT in the tech industry? |
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