One of the most recent trends in the post COVID era is the mass importation of doctors who were never credentialed or took residency in the US. This is so prevalent now that as of July 2025, 17 states (mostly red states including Florida and Texas) have passed legislation requiring no residency or medical schooling for foreign doctors to practice in the US, 3 (Wa, Cal, NY) have limited licensing pending full, 7 have pending legislation for full, legislation has failed in 8 states.
This is constantly swept under the rug as health outcomes are getting worse and congress still refuses to tell the AMA to go fuck themselves and increase US trained doctors while eliminating DEI admits. It’s now going to be cheaper for an American to go to medical school and do residency overseas then come back to the US.
If you think the socialized Medicaid/care and pharmaceutical industry is corrupt now, wait until 500k more jeet doctors are imported.
I haven't had any healthcare insurance for the last 4 years
And i have kids
So it is a risk but the goal is to live such a healthy lifestyle we can avoid the medical system. I would like to get blood work done annually but even that i can't trust anyone with. Wish i could buy equipment to test my own blood so i can read the contents and diagnose potential medical problems.
Oh wait. I'm a fucking vampire. LOL i'm immortal.
In this situation you prepare multiple samples and send it to multiple labs. If they all agree then you can have higher confidence in those readings.
It's not the equipment so much but the reagents. Anyways if you do want to do this then look at old school 1960s and 1970s laboratory text books on how this work was done. You may not get the fancy printout but you can at least have some data to do diagnostics with.
Interesting.
iirc medical debt is going back on your credit scores, so this may not be a good idea for anyone who is looking to accomplish anything credit-related