The limiting factor to creating more skilled physicians is not medical school admissions. It's residency training slots. Most residency training slots rely on federal government funding. Pretty much everyone, including the AMA, agrees that there is a looming undersupply of physicians. There may be disagreement on the best way to address the issue, but there is little disagreement among physicians about the fundamental problem.
I have seen comments talking about "physician cartels" purposely encouraging a labor shortage to drive up physician pay. There is no physician cartel. Only about 15% of physicians even belong to the AMA, and only a subset of those have any political involvement at all. It just doesn't exist.
One of the things that I think contributes to the general dissatisfaction of physicians in 2017 is the increasingly negative public opinion of the medical profession and the imputation that there is some sort of evil conspiracy at work. A lot of the negative opinion is misdirected. It should be aimed at the for-profit health care system itself. Most physicians I know have very little control over the things people complain about, including cost.
I have seen comments talking about "physician cartels" purposely encouraging a labor shortage to drive up physician pay. There is no physician cartel. Only about 15% of physicians even belong to the AMA, and only a subset of those have any political involvement at all. It just doesn't exist.
One of the things that I think contributes to the general dissatisfaction of physicians in 2017 is the increasingly negative public opinion of the medical profession and the imputation that there is some sort of evil conspiracy at work. A lot of the negative opinion is misdirected. It should be aimed at the for-profit health care system itself. Most physicians I know have very little control over the things people complain about, including cost.