tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959018.post114853386634548149..comments2023-09-28T10:37:31.277-05:00Comments on Benign assimilation: NY Times anti-capitalist biasUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959018.post-1152396080849747692006-07-08T17:01:00.000-05:002006-07-08T17:01:00.000-05:00Most Filipinos, including hubbby I love & nursing ...Most Filipinos, including hubbby I love & nursing colleagues have same train of thought as you. <BR/>Restriction on nurse's ability to accumulate capital is restriction on their freedom. <BR/>I lived the life of graduate nurse class '67, nurse immigrant '69 and a practicing capitalist today. <BR/>These I attribute as grace from God, generosity of America and genuis of Adam Smith.Ate Melyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06169744460931381051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959018.post-1148851721111048052006-05-28T16:28:00.000-05:002006-05-28T16:28:00.000-05:00"Today, these nurses are generous money remitters,..."Today, these nurses are generous money remitters, sending siblings and relatives to school, financing a business, never forget a holiday and birthday cash gift."<BR/><BR/>But those remittances will cease very soon since the Senate provisions allow not only the nurses to leave the Philippines, but for them to take their families with them. With no (or little) family back home, there's no longer motivation to send remittances. So the Philippines gets screwed 3 times over-- 1. trains these nurses and doctors but loses them and loses all the money sunk into training them, 2. loses desperately needed nursing and doctor talent to treat people back home (I've seen people die slowly in front of me in Manila due to the lack of healthcare staff and they cannot be retrained-- never, ever downplay the severity of the problem), and 3. doesn't even have the benefit of remittances.<BR/><BR/>It's a stupid, murderous plan, plain and simple. The solutions have to come from both sides. The Philippines should actually work a little harder to pay the Filipino nurses a fair wage, which would obviously lead more of them stay and help their countrymen and countrywomen. But the US should get off its rich fat ass and actually train the nurses it needs to take care of its patients, rather than poaching from already poor countries. The US should also, at the very least, compensate the Philippines for the training costs, which are very expensive. Even better, maybe we should set up a system so that nurses in the Philippines work for a few years in the US, then come back-- better trained, giving benefit to the US, but ultimately helping others within their homeland.<BR/><BR/>I'm an ardent Pinoy capitalist and agree with you on most points, but not on this one. You're dead wrong here and rather naive.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com