Rich countries should actively recruit medical personnel from poor ones, and with this freedom must come the responsibility to reimburse them fully for the cost of their training.

Lo and behold, here comes our first agreement with the prop: we agree that the only difference between the status quo and the motion is the word "actively". But the proposition, that should defend that same word, never shows us an active recruitment plan. The topic of the debate is whether there should be recruiting that is active, like for example as Australia recruits new citizens by going to other countries and organizing fairs about emigration to Australia opportunities. That is actively recruiting, but team prop. merely propose a compensation that comes after the doctor leaves, so it's not active at all. Then comes this incredible pair of statements: "brain drain is unacceptable form of intellectual colonialism" followed later in the debate with "The only real distinction [between a lawyer leaving and a doctor leaving] would be their scarcity in some countries, but this cannot override the right of the individual to practice their skills in accordance with their preferences". They at the same time label brain drain as "unacceptable" but then say people should be able to leave because of their individual rights". But if something is unacceptable how can you accept the thing that allows it.This is the same as saying: To me abortion is unacceptable, but I respect a woman's right to choose. We think that a brain drain it's a very sad thing and we wish it didn't exist, but it's only a symptom of any country that doesn't have a good enough situation for its brains to say "I will stay here with my people". The brain drain is a consequence of a country's bad political situation, rampant criminality, war, impunity and economic crisis, so a resolution to these is necessary to stopping the brain drain. Proof of this is that brain drains generally occur after these situations happen in any country but never where the opposite happens. Compensation will do nothing to stop this "unacceptable" thing. The other team proposes a false disjunctive since protectionism and compensation are not the only possibilities. Rich countries could invest the money intended by the proposition for compensation inside their own country and seek to reduce costs and they could also seek to train their own doctors on poorer countries. Their compensation plan has two fundamental errors. First, countries need doctors more than they need money. Mere money won't cure a sickness but doctors can. The proposition might say that a poorer country can hire and or teach other doctors but there is a need for the doctor now, not in eight years time, which is how long it takes to train another one. Another error: thinking a doctor's value to be equal to their training. But most doctors will work for decades after graduation and the years of schooling and the place they take up until high school should be calculated as well. So if we though compensation was enough, which we don't, the suggested compensation would be puny. The prop. could say that the compensation should cover all this, but this would render recruiting pointless as no matter how little med school costs, if we add all education starting from first grade, and we also add the health benefits that doctor would yield to the home nation throughout his/her life and we add the impact the professional would on saving human lives and improving quality of life then this very large sum would be comparable and even larger than the money it takes to train a national from the rich nation. We contend that either the compensation it's insufficient or if it's sufficient, then there's no advantage in expending a lot of money buying a foreign doctor for its whole worth instead of training more local doctors at only the training cost of the rich country. Furthermore tropical zones have different needs than colder zones, and since poor nations have many times a tropical climate they are ill catered to care for people in other climates. Of course in the SQ people cross temperature zones, but with the other team's plan it will happen more since some countries will be tempted to farm doctors to send them. To retrain this people on things like frostbite and flu season, would cost money which should be added to any just calculation of compensation plus retraining. People in poorer countries are often trained in parasites and malnutrition, which are common ailments in poorer countries but not on rich ones, that knowledge would go to waste in rich countries. Furthermore, as we explain later, there is no guarantee the compensation money will be used to create more doctors.