Schooling costs are high because of the length of the program - four years of pre-med, four years of med school. Compare in the UK - five years instead of eight

Schooling costs are high because of the length of the program - four years of pre-med, four years of med school. Compare in the UK - five years instead of eight, taking 2 years of pre-clinical courses and 3 years of clinical courses, subsidised to a good extent by the state. UK doctors seem equally skilled, and have minimal student debt. Scarcity being a function of selective admissions is a tautology. To be useful, selectivity would need to be to some objective minimum standard, rather than enforcing an ever-changing standard that enforces the restriction of the profession to an arbitrary small number of entrants.