Controlling ‘Unwanted’ Immigration: Lessons from the United States, 1993–2004

Immigration and Poverty in the United States

Poverty in the United States declined slightly between 1970 and 2005 (Figure 1).2 Declines were notable for the native-born, whereas poverty among immigrants increased. Although the poverty rate of immigrants from many regions has declined, the distribution of the U.S. immigrant population by origin has shifted decisively towards source countries that generate immigrants who are more likely to ...

Lessons for the united states

Lessons for the United States from the Chinese pediatricians' experience.

Our hospital is targeting issues mentioned by Xu and Zhang. As a training center for family medicine, family doctors provide care to children and hence offload some of the general pediatric burden and refer those who need specialists’ care to pediatricians. Also, all physicians and surgeons receive the same salaries according to rank and position, without regard to their specialties/subspecialt...

Health System Reform in the United States

In 2010, the United States adopted its first-ever comprehensive set of health system reforms in the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Implementation of the law, though politically contentious and controversial, has now reached a stage where reversal of most elements of the law is no longer feasible. The controversial portions of the law that expand affordable health insurance coverage to most U.S. cit...

Our United States legacy: lessons learned from the British Empire.

With our current positions both in Singapore and the United States, my husband, Edward Holmes, and I have had the opportunity to work on projects spanning the globe, from the US to Europe to the Middle East. This has given us a valuable perspective on the US from multiple international points of view. We now have a much better ability to assess where the United States stands today and the traje...