Re: US healthcare system
just because something is hard to do does not mean its nto worth doing. do u know the change in number of docs graduated from US unis in 1970s, and 1980s and now? clearly there is an issue
The number has gone up. A number of medical schools have opened since then, and none (as far as I know) have closed.
nope, just have more med schools
Really? And where will the funding for that come from? What about the funding for residency training for all those new graduates? And, if you do reduce wages by flooding the market, who's going to want to incur hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt and spend over a decade in training to become a doctor?
its the entire medical establishment, which is overpriced, costs of tests, medicines, diocs, nurses, u name it.
You were talking about physician wages specifically, and I was just pointing out how ridiculous that was.
And how, pray tell, will flooding the market with doctors reduce the cost of medications and tests?
No, thats not what I am saying, thats what you are hearing. I simply said, allow more physicians to practice. The limitations on number of residencies is one issue, and if you go back to the whoel issue of more teaching hospitals and more med schoosl that is looking at the same point. There clearly is an issue witrh supply and demand, u can only decrease demand so much, so u have to increase the supply.
The US already has a higher physician to population ratio than a number of countries with more "egalitarian" healthcare systems (the UK, Canada).