How about allowing more people into medical school? The numbers are artificially restricted by the MD cartel
“How about allowing more people into medical schooll?”
That might help to improve access, but I don’t believe that costs would be lower because physician fees account for only a small percentage of total healthcare costs and the costs of school and training programs would have to be absorbed somewhere.
The answer is to reduced the unproductive costs from overrgulation and allow a free market system to develop that allows competition and real price discovery. The other thing to consider is that self employed physicians are more productive than employed physicians so the shift to employed physicians is reducing man power. Anyone that runs a small business knows that the owners always work the hardest.
That’s why nurse practitioner programs have ramped up and are turning away applicants for lack of teachers.