Comment by keane

You're citing an AMA public relations campaign to retain public funding of residencies but I'm not sure anyone here is arguing that it should be cut. The AMA made public statements holding the same position about increasing funding and removing the 1997 residency caps in 2006. And yet notable academics since 2006 still have suggested (eg, the books in 2017 and 2020) that the profession, ie the membership of the AMA, presumably even with this formal position taken by their association body, is behaving in a protectionist manner. Either way, part of the argument is that physicians' documented earlier collective behavior (old boys club), suspected ongoing culture, and inherent economic interests, are still causing present and future problems.