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> Doctors earn high salaries because if they didn’t we wouldn’t be able to convince kids to become doctors. Are you arguing the reason we can't have more docto

> Doctors earn high salaries because if they didn’t we wouldn’t be able to convince kids to become doctors. Are you arguing the reason we can't have more doctor's is because not enough people want to be doctor's? Have you looked at medical school acceptance rates? > No easy solutions. We have built this problem up over many decades and it will take many painful decades to unwind it all. There are plenty of easy solutions. Stop requiring a college degree for medical school. Increase the number of medical school slots. Increase how much nurse practitioners can do. But the is fighting all of them tooth and nail.

hurricanetc 7y ago
>Are you arguing the reason we can't have more doctor's is because not enough people want to be doctor's? Have you looked at medical school acceptance rates? No that is not what I was arguing. Becoming a doctor is prohibitively expensive but being a doctor pays handsomely. If cost and salary were "normalized" nothing would change but it is impossible to just change one of the two. Thus my argument is that we can't just pay doctors less unless we also make becoming a doctor cheaper. >There are plenty of easy solutions. Stop requiring a college degree for medical school. Increase the number of medical school slots. Increase how much nurse practitioners can do. But the is fighting all of them tooth and nail. Easy to say, difficult to do. You can't just instantly suck money out of areas of the economy. Things take time to adjust.
- JamesBarney 7y ago
  Tuition for public medical schools in Texas is close to ~$18,000 a year but they still get paid very well. Doctor's get paid well because there is a shortage due to restrictive licensing, not because it's expensive to become a doctor. You're right that it is politically difficult. I just meant it was easy in that the solutions are obvious and don't require hard trade offs.

hurricanetc 7y ago

>Are you arguing the reason we can't have more doctor's is because not enough people want to be doctor's? Have you looked at medical school acceptance rates? No that is not what I was arguing. Becoming a doctor is prohibitively expensive but being a doctor pays handsomely. If cost and salary were "normalized" nothing would change but it is impossible to just change one of the two. Thus my argument is that we can't just pay doctors less unless we also make becoming a doctor cheaper. >There are plenty of easy solutions. Stop requiring a college degree for medical school. Increase the number of medical school slots. Increase how much nurse practitioners can do. But the is fighting all of them tooth and nail. Easy to say, difficult to do. You can't just instantly suck money out of areas of the economy. Things take time to adjust.

JamesBarney 7y ago
Tuition for public medical schools in Texas is close to ~$18,000 a year but they still get paid very well. Doctor's get paid well because there is a shortage due to restrictive licensing, not because it's expensive to become a doctor. You're right that it is politically difficult. I just meant it was easy in that the solutions are obvious and don't require hard trade offs.