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There are far more med school applicants than spots every year. They can't expand because of residency constraints, sure all that stuff would lead to more people wanting to become doctors, but the people who want to be doctors now largely can't. That problem would only be worse with less education.

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Actually the issue is not residency; basically everyone who graduates med school gets a residency.

The filter is on entering med school.

No. Med schools desperately want to expand because they make a ton of money, there are not enough residency slots for them to expand without competent graduates going unmatched.

While there are more residency spots that graduating medical students in the us every year, they do have to compete with foreign grads, of which there are more than enough. So the us grads can’t be completely and openly incompetent. So some of them do fail to even graduate, and obviously not get residency spots.

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