[Kevmo]

Typical “guild mentality caused the problem because I’m so smart but I couldn’t get into med school.”
***My turn to call nonsense. It’s the AMA which determines how many med schools there are. They could double the number of med schools and not reduce the quality of care. The number of slots are artificially kept low so that doctors are in high demand in this country.

We hire hundreds of foreign docs every year because we cannot *afford* to educate more doctors.
***Sure we can. Those foreign docs come from places that can barely afford to dig a well for water, yet they keep open reasonably good med schools.

[Mamzelle]

So, you fork over the hundreds of million, more like billions to create these medical schools. Start amed school if you think all that's standing in the way is a pusillanimous AMA.

I appeal to those who have some sense. Look at a law school. Classrooms, teachers, $40.k a year. Look at what it takes to educate a doctor, pharmacist, nurse or PA. A vast technological enterprise with a pool of interesting patients.

But what I meet are those who think they were smart enough for med school and the Guild kept them out.

Once again, we import doctors by the hundreds from other countries, and the "guild" didn't keep THEM out.