> Compare Dr salaries to other countries. Doctors in the US make 2 to 10 times as much as other counties. This is slightly unfair if you don't consider the cos

> Compare Dr salaries to other countries. Doctors in the US make 2 to 10 times as much as other counties. This is slightly unfair if you don't consider the cost and time of becoming a doctor. That is not to say that the AMA doesn't purposely enforce a shortage as an attempt to drive up wages, but many doctors spend the better part of a decade (or more) before they're really earning any reasonable amount, and they have large debts from paying for school. > Start educating way way way more Doctors Yes. But that will hurt those who are already doctors somewhat, so there's a strong incentive to limit the pool. > encourage people to go to low cost universities (which do exist - but everyone wants "the best"). These don't really exist in any reasonable amounts. You also have to consider how much of a doctor's education is outside of a university. And it does make a difference which hospitals you have your rotations and residency at. If you want to be doing EM, you're not going to want to end up in some sleepy town in the midwest where the most that happens is some drunk dude needing his stomach pumped. If you want to end up being in a specific field, your choices tend to be relatively limited in where you can actually get the education and experience you need for that specialty. Anyways, all that is mostly to say that the healthcare 'system' in the US is a clusterfuck for many interconnected (and entangled) reasons and there is no one simple issue to address.