What is the protection racket that intentionally limits supply? The primary bottleneck to producing more physicians is lack of available residency slots. Teaching hospitals are free to add more but for various reasons choose not to. In part I think they're waiting and hoping that Congress will kick in more subsidies through the Medicare program.
Even if financial constraints were removed, the notion that we could produce twice as many physicians is ludicrous. There simply aren't enough attendings able to supervise a lot more residents, nor are there enough patient cases coming through the teaching hospitals to give that many residents the practical training they would need.
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Even if financial constraints were removed, the notion that we could produce twice as many physicians is ludicrous. There simply aren't enough attendings able to supervise a lot more residents, nor are there enough patient cases coming through the teaching hospitals to give that many residents the practical training they would need.