Another challenge facing rural health care: “(J-1 doctors) are frequently overworked, cheated financially, and diverted away from the underserved patients they are supposed to serve. “¦ The abuses are possible because each employer sponsors the visas for his J-1 doctors. That means a J-1 doctor who loses his job might have to leave the country. The foreign doctors have worked their entire lives for the chance to become Americans, so they’re unlikely to complain, because it puts their immigration status at risk.”
