The Trump administration\u2019s US$100,000 fee for high-skilled visa applicants threatens to worsen a shortage of US doctors and make it harder for rural hospitals to operate, medical groups warned.<\/p>\n
The fee for H-1B visas \u201crisks shutting off the pipeline of highly trained doctors that patients depend on, especially in rural and underserved communities\u201d, said American Medical Association president Bobby Mukkamala, a Michigan head and neck surgeon.<\/p>\n
US President Donald Trump added the fee for applications for the programme in a proclamation on Friday that roiled the technology industry and upended plans of highly educated foreign students. The White House clarified on Saturday that the new policy does not apply to current visa holders.<\/p>\n
On Monday, the administration also said doctors may be able to avoid it. \u201cThe proclamation allows for potential exemptions, which can include doctors and medical residents,\u201d White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers said.<\/p>\n
Trump has said companies abuse H-1Bs to suppress wages, calling it a security threat.<\/p>\n
Healthcare employers often sponsor medical residents and other doctors on H-1B visas. Mukkamala called international medical graduates \u201ca critical part of our doctor workforce\u201d. Making it harder for them \u201cto train and practice here means patients will wait longer and drive farther to get care,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Trump administration\u2019s US$100,000 fee for high-skilled visa applicants threatens to worsen a shortage of US doctors and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,104607,103703,96749,18658,104609,12,104611,2344,9378,104608,9768,3,104612,70936,104610,29465,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-175520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-american-hospital-association","tag-american-medical-association","tag-bobby-mukkamala","tag-cleveland-clinic","tag-david-leopold","tag-donald-trump","tag-h-1b-visas","tag-india","tag-kff","tag-m-e-siddall","tag-mayo-clinic","tag-news","tag-remitly","tag-rural-hospitals","tag-st-jude-childrens-research-hospital","tag-taylor-rogers","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}