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> From a more practical angle, I don’t know how you could possibly find more doctors by lowering their earning potential.

You certainly could if you were willing to accept people who are terrible at being a physician.

The notion that you can just throw more warm bodies at the problem is ludicrous

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Other countries have double, even triple the number of physicians per capita. They also pay them a lot less. Are they all less competent? Are US filtering requirements actually all that predictive of future performance? Can we, say, see that MCAT scores really line up well with clinical performance? Because it's easy to be selective, but not so easy for the selectivity to be predictive of actual quality, especially when you are being selective before training starts.

But those countries also pay less in a lot of other fields as well. Developers make less in those countries than they make in the US.

I would be surprised if wages in most of those countries were not lower overall, not just for doctors.

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