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Originally Posted by sunnyatlast
This whole thing is off track from the get-go, based on a faulty premise.
The dr. shortage is not due to their years of schooling or curriculum. It's due to fewer residency positions than there are graduates coming out of med school.
Required residency training is paid for in large part with Medicare funds, (supplying doctors in training at lower pay at teaching hospitals) and Medicare funding to the training programs is being cut by Congress, not increased:
New England Journal of Medicine -The Residency Mismatch
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Bingo. I was just getting ready to bring this up. In the late 90's the Feds capped the number of residency slots that are reimbursable in part by Medicare. This has become the bottle neck for more docs.
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