Missing from the Democrats’ health plans is how to treat the newly insured. Massachusetts is finding out that there aren’t enough doctors to treat the influx of patients. This WSJ op-ed suggests using foreign trained physicians:

Massachusetts ran into this problem: Few doctors wanted (or were able, given widespread shortages in many specialties) to treat many of the patients qualifying under the program. The solution lies in allowing imports of medical personnel tied into tending to the newly insured.

This is what the Great Society program did in the 1960s, with imports of doctors whose visas tied them, for specific periods, to serving remote, rural areas. U.S.-trained physicians practicing for a specified period in an “underserved” area were not required to return home.