How many people will want to go through the rigors of medical school just to become workers for a gigantic bureaucracy? Where is the incentive without freedom?
There is a good arguement that this is one of the reasons that third world health care is so bad in areas with close ties to Europe. Socialized medicine drove out droves of the intellegent, motivated native Europeans from the industry. To make up the numbers, European countries have flung their doors open to health care workers from their former colonies. As a result, the best and the brightest from these areas are working in Europe, making WAY more money, in better conditions than they would have back home. This leaves mostly 2nd and 3rd tier candidates for health care postions in the third world coutnries.