Medical Groups Warn Against Visa Fees for Foreign Doctors
27th September 2025
The New York Times, a Voice of the Crust.
The United States depends heavily on physicians trained abroad.
Ask yourself why that is.
The key obstacle is the limited number of residency positions, which are essential for medical school graduates to become fully licensed physicians. Despite more students graduating from medical school, thousands of qualified graduates are unable to enter residency because the number of training slots has not kept pace with demand. This is largely due to a cap on Medicare-funded residency slots imposed by Congress in 1997, which has remained effectively unchanged for over 25 years and restricts hospitals’ ability to train more doctors.
Once again, government is the problem, not the solution.