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Originally Posted by trackrat59
Riot you can't just make more doctors. It's not that easy. Also, I never said that people should not have access to health care because there are not enough doctors to go around.
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Yes, I know you didn't, I mentioned it because this argument ("doctor shortage") was a major "against" argument on the far right during the original healthcare debate.
Doctors have always been a bit of an supply and demand thing. Each med school can expand their class seating by 3-5% (affordable to the school), which most are doing, now. Some can go larger. In four years that increases interns, and that addition can stay as long as demand is there.
You have to do two things: enable doctors to actually practice medicine, and not just check off what insurance companies say they can do for patients; and make it so people that spend $75,000 - $150,000 on their medical education think they will realistically be able to pay it back over 10-20 years (and have enough left over for starting a business or buying into one, and having a life at the same time)