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The AMA corrected course on this. The problem is not a lack of schools. The problem is a lack of hospitals to train them in as part of the residency. As long as residency is a thing, we have an insurmountable bottle neck.

Evidence to the limitations. https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/4561/does-the-a...

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Both are problems. Half the qualified med school candidates don't get accepted to any schools. Of course if we build more med schools we'd need more residencies too, but the government can just raise the subsidy they give residencies to create more.

AFAIK due to regulation, hospitals can prevent other, new hospitals from being built and it happens often. Get rid of the regulation.

In many places, the government prevents new hospitals from being built. The existing hospital doesn't have to do anything.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_of_need

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