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Increase the capacity of the medical schools to produce doctors, and then let them do so. Currently, the medical schools have a kind of cartel that restricts the number of people who can become doctors. That is really the nexus of the problem.


8 posted on 05/09/2007 5:23:27 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Brilliant
Currently, the medical schools have a kind of cartel that restricts the number of people who can become doctors. That is really the nexus of the problem.

I disagree. Under our system, if there were more doctors, the financial rewards of being a doctor would be substantially less because of supply and demand. I can tell you, I would not have gone $250,000 in debt, worked 70 hours per week, and postponed my life for eight years if the potential did not exist to turn that around.

18 posted on 05/09/2007 5:34:50 AM PDT by outofstyle
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Increase the capacity of the medical schools to produce doctors, and then let them do so. Currently, the medical schools have a kind of cartel that restricts the number of people who can become doctors. That is really the nexus of the problem.

Doctors are only a small portion of the total health care bill. What do you do to about hospitial and medical equipment costs? Perscription drug costs? Nurses? Lab technicians? Hospital administrators?

31 posted on 05/09/2007 6:05:15 AM PDT by kabar
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