More than one-quarter of applicants for U.S. residency programs are foreign medical graduates. In 2025, 9,761 international medical graduates matched to a residency program in the U.S. out of a pool estimated to be as high as 15,000 who wanted to come. Some of these were U.S. citizens attending school abroad, but most were foreign born and educated abroad.
Category: Consumer-Driven Health Care
Monday Links
- Immigrant geniuses: Between 1990 and 2019, migrants from China, India, South Korea, Japan and the Philippines accounted for nearly 40 percent of the growth in America’s software-developer ranks, a quarter of new scientists and engineers, and a fifth of additional physicians.
- Effect of students’ failure to learn: the lifetime earnings of today’s average student will be an estimated 8 percent lower than that of students in 2013.
- Why aren’t there more HSAs in exchange plans?
- Based on data from almost 2 million species, researchers found that in the last 200 years, there was no evidence for increasing extinction from climate change.
Saturday Links
- Among 184 cancer drugs analyzed, 41.8 percent had at least one follow-on approval, with 59.7 percent of those targeting earlier disease stages than the original approval. This type of innovation is threatened by the IRA, which shortened the period of patent protection.
- Nearly 70,000 federal employees make more than $200,000, or two and a half times the median household income.
- Less than 60% of males between the ages of 16-24 are working.
- Capretta’s ACA reform: let low-wage workers have a partial subsidy to buy into their employer’s plan.
- Mark Cuban wants to F___ Up health care. (Statnews)
- Study: healthy lifestyle habits improve engagement at work.
Friday Links
- Average wait to see a new doctor is 31 days.
- Poll: 57 percent of voters in 16 GOP-held battleground districts said they were more likely to choose a congressional candidate who voted to preserve the Affordable Care Act tax credits.
- India has become the world’s pharmacy. HIV drugs sell for a dollar a day.
- Roughly 40% of the US population lives in an area where the water is not fluoridated.
- 6% of US students are being homeschooled.