Actually, the laws do restrict the number of doctors, albeit indirectly. You need to be legally licensed, and in order to be licensed, you must (by law) graduate from an accredited medical school, and in order for a school to be accredited, it must receive the approval of something called the Liason Committee on Medical Education, which is a committee whose members are 1/3 appointed by the AMA, 1/3 appointed by the teaching hospitals, and 1/3 appointed by the medical schools themselves. The LCME uses its control over the accreditation process to restrict the capacity of the medical schools to accept medical students and reduce the number of graduates, which obviously ultimately reduces the number of doctors that can be licensed. They’ve been doing this for almost 100 years, and that has built up a significant distortion of the number of doctors relative to the population.
And Hillary shut down medical schools, so I guess you could count that.
But when you consider that a teaching program costs hundreds of millions of dollars to get started, and dozens of millions to run each year, it is the laws of scarcity that dictate, not some guild behind the scenes plotting to keep the #s of personnel low for their own devious ends.
Case in pt--we are starting to import physicians, many from Islam. (shudder) If it was cheap to educate doctors, don't you think schools would have emerged? Instead, we take advantage of overseas medical schools to train many of our new docs.