The US has a doctor shortage because the entire system is designed to make it expensive and difficult to become one in order to legitimize high salaries. The US

The US has a doctor shortage because the entire system is designed to make it expensive and difficult to become one in order to legitimize high salaries. The US has arcane rules like only allowing US residencies to practice in the US unlike basically every other country. Students go in expecting to do good in the world, are put through a grinder, and come out thinking fuck everything at least I get paid. The system self-perpetuates instead of increasing the number of physicians, reducing pay to the mere low hundreds of thousands, making medical school not only free but paid, and reducing work load and redundant overlaps to increase patient safety (as turn over between shifts is one of the most dangerous times of day). The AMA until very recently also was a key opponent of Medicare for All, so there's that lovely bubble of reaction sitting there too.