America’s Public Health Breakdown Is Just Getting Started

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America’s Public Health Breakdown Is Just Getting Started

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Why Canada should prepare for an influx of scientists, educators and more.

Crawford Kilian - December 19, 2024 - The Tyee

EXCERPT: "The United States has a health-care system that is terrible and getting worse. It also has a health science system that is the best in the world and about to be dismantled.

The impending return of Donald Trump to the White House seems likely to collapse American health science, with consequences as disastrous for the rest of the world as for the approximately 340 million Americans in the U.S. Canada may be able to soften the impact here, but it will not be easy. . . . .

But we could at best help only a fraction of some of the best health scientists in the world, and we would likely be competing for them with nations like Australia, France and the Nordic countries.

Still, some provincial governments might welcome a few top scientists and their students, if only until the 2028 U.S. presidential election (if there is one).

Manitoba is already advertising for U.S. physicians with a tempting invitation: “Practice medicine with stability, predictability, and zero political interference between you and your patients.”

We should also plan for the return of Canadian experts who find it difficult to continue work in the U.S. As the American poet Robert Frost once put it, “Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in.”

For the next few years, Canada should be home to as many American scientists and educators as we can squeeze in."