>The issue is residents are unproductive and thus need government subsidy for hospitals to train.

This is so hilariously wrong. Hospitals make TONS of money from the work of residents who get paid like 50k doing 200k of work. A residency hospital, Hanneman, closed and the spots there were auctioned off for $55M to other hospitals.

The limit is where it is because the AMA put it there because they were afraid of the "physician glut" ruining salaries. They're probably responsible for around as many American deaths as many of the world's worst dictators.

Pretty clever retcon in their text to make themselves out to be heroes, if your source is the AMA.

Vote whichever way you want, I'm absolutely right:

* https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/health/2005-03-02-docto...

* https://www.nytimes.com/1986/06/14/us/ama-board-studies-ways...

* https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/thanks-to-doctors-there-a...

* https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1997-03-01-19970600...