Open sscovil opened 7 years ago
The purpose of this bill is to establish a Medical Corps that is structurally similar to the military. Three distinguishing factors are:
There are several health-related organizations within the U.S. Government, such as:
However, none of them match all three distinguishing features of the proposed Medical Corps.
The closest thing I've found to what I am proposing is the Cadet Nurse Corps, which operated from 1943 until 1948 to ensure the country had enough nurses to care for its citizens at home and abroad during World War II. The program was open to all women between the ages of 17 and 35, in good health, who had graduated from an accredited high school. Successful applicants were eligible for a government subsidy, paying for tuition, books, uniforms, and a stipend. In exchange, they were required to pledge to actively serve in essential civilian or federal government services for the duration of World War II. All state nursing schools were eligible to participate in the program. However, they needed to be accredited by the accrediting agency in their state, and connected with a hospital that had been approved by the American College of Surgeons.
This question has come up quite often, usually in the form of someone pointing out that something similar does exist. For example...
Facebook user Judy Segerdell Langston made this comment on July 16th:
Facebook user Wiley Cox made this comment on July 17th:
Facebook user Rob Stidman made this comment on July 23rd:
A colleague of mine passed along this comment from a friend on July 27th: