The solution to difficulty booking doctors isn't to pontificate on how to allocate their time, the solution to difficulty booking doctors is to make more doctors.
There's lots of levers that could be pulled in the US. Cut down on undergraduate requirements, incentivize large health systems to fund more training (people like to complain that the federal government only funds a fixed number of residency slots, as if a trillion dollar industry is just absolutely helpless to do anything).
Medical care suffers under the bizarre idea that central planning and capacity management will control costs. Meanwhile, costs are spiraling up and up and up. Train more doctors and all the stupid games being played to optimize their utilization start to go away, because it is less worth it when demand is less than supply.
There's lots of levers that could be pulled in the US. Cut down on undergraduate requirements, incentivize large health systems to fund more training (people like to complain that the federal government only funds a fixed number of residency slots, as if a trillion dollar industry is just absolutely helpless to do anything).
Medical care suffers under the bizarre idea that central planning and capacity management will control costs. Meanwhile, costs are spiraling up and up and up. Train more doctors and all the stupid games being played to optimize their utilization start to go away, because it is less worth it when demand is less than supply.