{"id":50320,"date":"2025-07-31T15:29:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T15:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/50320\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T15:29:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T15:29:12","slug":"merit-based-health-care-visas-support-border-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/50320\/","title":{"rendered":"Merit-based health care visas support border security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"pb-2\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.medicaleconomics.com\/view\/ep-67-immigration-policy-and-the-physician-shortage-with-thomas-e-price-m-d-\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tom Price, M.D.<\/a>, rejects the idea that health care immigration reform and border security are in conflict. In fact, he argues they go hand in hand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pb-2\">The former Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary says a well-structured, merit-based visa program for health care workers would not only strengthen the medical workforce, but also reinforce responsible immigration policy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pb-2\">&#8220;It&#8217;s part of the principle of what real border security is all about,&#8221; Price said. &#8220;That is, to make certain the folks allowed to come into this country are ones that will be able to contribute to our society.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"pb-2\">He pointed to the critical shortage of health care workers in the U.S. \u2014 particularly as the population ages \u2014 and said few professions could offer more meaningful contributions than clinicians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pb-2\">&#8220;If we were to have a merit-based visa process for health care workers, then that helps to solve part of the challenges of the workforce,&#8221; he said. &#8220;[It] also recognizes that there are principles involved from an immigration standpoint that ought to be adhered to.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Price, M.D., rejects the idea that health care immigration reform and border security are in conflict. In&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,38917,253,38920,38918,38916,38919],"class_list":["post-50320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-health-care-and-border-security","tag-healthcare","tag-immigration-policy-health-care","tag-immigration-reform-bipartisan","tag-merit-based-immigration","tag-tom-price-physician-visas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50320","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=50320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}