[Blue_Ridge_Mtn_Geek]

The principal cause of this shortfall is easy to discern. In the early 1990s, federal and provincial health ministers sought to reduce the number of students admitted to medical schools, encouraged older doctors to retire early and limited the number of foreign-trained docs entering the country. The theory was that fewer physicians would result in lower medicare billings and fewer hospital admissions, thus producing savings to public treasuries -- as though doctors control who gets sick and how many seek treatment.

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Let's see, reducing the supply while the demand increases is supposed to cut costs? What kind of morons do they have in charge up there? No wonder the physicians are bailing out.

[litany_of_lies]

as though doctors control who gets sick and how many seek treatment

Makes sense to me. If you can't see or find a doc, you must not be sick. (/sarcasm)