They can put a requirement that if you are going to be a doctor, you have to treat Medicare and Medicaid patients. It's closer to the civil rights laws where you can't refuse to serve a person because of their race.
However, the doctors could contest it if there is not fair compensation. But providers are currently required to provide emergency care whether a person can pay or not and there is zero compensation. Not sure why nobody has contested that. Seems to me if one is an unconstitutional "taking", then the other should be too.
They can tell a doctor what he has to do to hold himself out as a doctor, but they can't tell a person he has to be a doctor.
Yes, but if Virginia instituted that requirement for all new students upon application to state medical schools, it's going to be years (it takes 4 years pre-med college, then 4 years of med school + 3 years of residency just for Family Practice) before the first newly-conscripted doctor sees his or her first patient. Plus no doctor who graduated from a medical school outside of Virginia would ever locate there. If this policy was instituted nationally, there is still no way to force doctors practice clinical medicine. There are an increasing number of alternative career options to clinical medicine. There are more physicians in Congress now than I can ever remember. Individuals who can pass med school gross anatomy and biochemistry generally aren't stupid. They can find other ways to earn a good living.
You’re wrong on this too…….