[Attention Surplus Disorder]

“For any given price for doctor services, the quantity of doctor hours available is certainly going to increase as the barriers to entry to the profession are raised.”

This seems exactly backwards to me. The harder it is to become a doc, the fewer docs there will be, and the fewer hours of doc time will exist.

[1rudeboy]

Professional licensing requirements are fundamentally protectionist in nature. They limit the pool of providers from expanding to meet demand. But the same amount of (potential) demand exists, so the providers remaining have more work to do. Whether they choose to do it is another matter.

[Jack Hydrazine]

I also disagree with this part from the article:

"When pressed for specifics, the ideas typically boil down to price or demand controls. Price controls we discussed. Demand controls are of the sort like "you can't get a transplant if you are over 70" or "we won't approve cancer treatments that only promise a year more life."

Most of these do not affect the chart above, since it is for doctor services and most of these cost control ideas are usually doctor intensive - more doctor time to have fewer tests, operations, drugs." The first part he is correct, but then contradicts himself saying that price and demand controls don't affect the chart. Collectivized Deathcare is all about controlling the supply and demand curves. O-care is rationed care whether from both sides.