To be fair, healthcare resources in the US are limited because of lobbying by the AMA which is a doctor's protectionist racket. They limit the medical school sl

To be fair, healthcare resources in the US are limited because of lobbying by the AMA which is a doctor's protectionist racket. They limit the medical school slots to keep salaries for doctors artificially elevated - if we deregulated entrance into medical school then we would have enough doctors to go around. And a lot of the elevated salaries and AMA power actually started during WWII with income caps (where better healthcare was a company perk to attract workers), and got exacerbated with the introduction of Medicare in the 1970s, where Medicare used to cover any procedures, so doctors could get obscenely rich via over-billing. The pullback on that actually caused doctors wages to be stagnant, albeit on an artificially elevated level. (See Canadian vs US doctor's salaries for ex - which tracked until 1990s but recently diverged quite a bit in favor of US doctors) Also, foreign trained medical specialists can't practice in the US without re-doing the board exams and residency - another protectionist move to limit doctor supply. There is an argument there that it maintains quality (since you can practically buy medical degrees in certain countries), but I think an easier pathway for foreign medical professionals to practice in the US could still help. I know all of this since my mother is actually a foreign-trained doctor who re-did residency in the US and has been practicing for 20+ years.