See here the infamous interview (background info in the introduction to the clip):

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2c-JEx-Kfvc

When I worked in a small town, the doctors were all American born but for one. Now that I am in a well-served urban area, about 1/3 of the docs are immigrants.

Obviously, if someone leaves a place where their kith and kin are horrifically underserved and in dire need of their services to come here, helping those in need can not be their primary motivation. The immigrant docs are comming to serve only their own self-interest and lose no ground in the pursuit of money.

I was practicing solo, independent.

Having just left a rural area for an urban practice, I would like to know about that increased reimbursement. There is substantially higher reimbursement in urban areas, even for the same insurance (Blues for example) or Medicare.

I suppose the eimbursement is better if you have Critical Access status, but no, there is usually no improved reimbursement to the physician, for rural practice.

Hospitals may well be a different story.

Two suspects in the failed car bombings in Britain made inquiries about working in the United States, the FBI said Friday.
Mohammed Asha, 26, and another man whose name an FBI spokeswoman didn’t give — contacted the Philadelphia-based Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates.
Asha, a Jordanian physician of Palestinian heritage, contacted the agency within the last year but apparently did not take the test for foreign medical school graduates, said the spokeswoman, Nancy O’Dowd.
The nonprofit commission verifies the credentials of foreign medical school graduates, evaluates individuals’ medical knowledge and administers exams. It represents just one step in a process foreigners must go through to obtain training as a medical resident in the U.S.
SOURCE: The Associated Press

The myth of a scarcity of rural or urban providers/services continues to be perpetuated. The fact is that there is neither the desire to practice in nor the necessary economic base to support specialists/subspecialists/hospitals or in some cases even primary care in rural communities. Urban communities have a full complement of care available within a short bus ride. Any urban problems are either economic and affect much more than healthcare, or misplaced priorities/poor choices/poor education.