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.
You used to be able to vote with your wallet when selecting healthcare.
Then insurance and private equity moved in and reduced choices across the board or made them so expensive to go "out of network" that you'd never even dare. They've been in love with this idea since Kaiser Permanente came into existence.
So there are effectively "no standards" as there are "no choices." If there were choices then you would actually get to see the absurdly high standards that American Healthcare sets for itself.
As for Thailand they still have choice. For now. You can see the wheels turning inside that kingdom as well. It's only a matter of time. The people with the money see us all as cattle and now that they have the technology to "control" us they're going to move in and bleed us all dry.
Enjoy it while it lasts wherever you are.