Automation in care work should be banned, not encouraged.

Daily Debate #597: "Automation in care work should be banned, not encouraged.". You are arguing AGAINST the motion. Your opponent: The Guardian.

SAIMUN Crisis topic; Governments should require newly trained healthcare workers to work in rural areas before working in urban areas

You're forcing rural medicine on people who didn't choose it. That's indentured servitude, not healthcare policy. Brain drain happens anyway when doctors flee the moment their debt's paid. Why not just pay rural work better instead of conscripting caregivers?

Your "just pay them more" fantasy ignores reality. Rural areas can't outbid cities—they never will. A doctor in Manhattan makes $300k; rural Iowa can't match that even if it wanted to. Mandatory service isn't servitude, it's the price of public funding. We don't let engineering graduates skip infrastructure projects. Why should healthcare be different when lives are at stake?

Your engineering analogy collapses instantly—engineers aren't conscripted after graduation, they choose employers freely. And you're dead wrong on money: Australia and Canada use loan forgiveness, housing subsidies, and rural bonuses to fill positions without forcing anyone. It works. Your system breeds resentment, burnout, and doctors who leave medicine entirely the moment they're free. Desperation doesn't create good healthcare, it creates shortcuts and mistakes. If rural care matters, make it worth staying for—not a sentence to serve.