The General Assembly passed a bill— HB 67– that does several things. The bill runs 48 pages.
Senate candidate Don Brown recently discussed it on OAN. He focused on the part of the bill that opens the floodgates for many more foreign-trained physicians to be employed by hospital systems in rural North Carolina:
U.S. Senate Candidate Don Brown on OAN – NC's Foreign Physicians Law Risks Dangerous Sharia Immigration. https://t.co/3c8xf9ktJB @OANN @annvandersteel @SidneyPowell1 @GenFlynn @charliekirk11 @JimHendley4NC @James_K_Womack @jimothyquick @asblondie1992 @Sadie_NC #MAGA pic.twitter.com/eeCgFNQwQt
— Don Brown (@donbrownfornc) August 19, 2025
The bill also establishes an “Interstate Medical Licensure Compact” This compact allows the state to automatically recognize the licenses of physicians from certain other states. That is a change that substantially erodes the sovereignty of the state of North Carolina on matters related to physician licensure and regulation.
The North Carolina Medical Society predictably supported this bill. It is a major pay-off for the major corporate employers of physicians in the state who want to import physicians from elsewhere to expand the supply of physicians, increase their control over them and pay them less.
But the bill also has certain cultural implications when rural North Carolina residents are stuck with foreign trained physicians whose accents they can hardly understand.
Addendum: The Daily Haymaker has more.
I have been hospitalized 3 times in the last 2 years . Most of the physicians that I saw were either Indian or Pakistani. Don’t know anything about their immigration status.
Don Brown sounds like a man with fire in the belly.
I agree with him that it is a bad bill.
Yes, it is a very bad bill, Fred. Obviously the hospital systems wanted it, because otherwise there was no impetus for this to happen.
It would be very understandable for Americans to prefer American doctors.