President Donald Trump New H-1B Cressing visa We speak as a blow to the technological industry. But in reality, the people who will suffer the most are not coders – they are patients.
More than 76 million Americans already live in places that the federal government designates as primary care physicians, According to KFF data. Many of these communities are counting on immigrant doctors with H-1B visas. Take them and rural health care collapsed.
“When you put a doctor in the midst of the rural Ohio or the Rural Indiana, and they must serve the sickness -serve – this kind of price will eliminate a lot of health care for many people through the country who really need it,” said immigration lawyer David Leopold Tell Bloomberg.
Even the White House knows it, admitting that it plans “potential exemptions, which may include doctors and medical residents”.
But it is a low promise for millions of Americans who already have trouble finding care, especially with Trump Medicaid cuts threatening to worsen access.
Meanwhile, the billionaires of Silicon Valley are furious.
Trump’s order hits its beloved workers on H-1B visas-a program that many companies have abused as a form of contract under contract. Elon Musk, in particular, Like h-1B hires who will not complain about brutal conditions, organize labor rights, or stop When the management goes out.
But in the world of technology today, there is no real shortage of engineers. Google said that more than a quarter of his code is already written by AI, while Industry lispos have reached more than 22,000 so far this year.
Meanwhile, recent computer engineering graduates face the third most difficult labor market of all degrees, according to a investigation by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
So, yes, it’s funny to watch Maga billionaires as Musk, Peter Thiel and Larry Ellison smokes while Trump strikes them once again. But the real problem is not in Silicon Valley. It was the families of rural America who could soon lose the only doctor they left.
