Examining implications of hiring foreign-born health workers on U.S., global health care systems

In this post in the IntraHealth "Global Health Blog," Kate Tulenko, senior director of health systems innovation at IntraHealth, provides an excerpt of her recently published book, "Insourced: How Importing Jobs Impacts the Healthcare Crisis Here and Abroad," in which she argues that the practice of "relying on foreign-born health workers to fill health care gaps, particularly in providing primary care ... has dire economic and social consequences, threatening the quality of medical care in both source countries and the U.S." (8/30). The blog also links to a recent interview by IntraHealth in which Tulenko discusses the issues raised in her book (8/29).