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Artificially limiting the supply of doctors drives the wages up. It's a common demand of doctors worldwide

• refurb 3y ago
  Not if you're in the universal system where the government sets the payments. I do know that limiting the number of doctors is one of many mechanisms to limit healthcare spending. A doctor can only see so many patients in one day.
  • lesam 3y ago
    I’m in Canada. If there were enough doctors that doctor unemployment was 2%+, like a normal job, doctors here would get paid less. Also doctors might not burn themselves out working crazy hours. Instead, we have a dire shortage of doctors and people in government employed full time trying to recruit the limited supply. Doctors can’t move to the next hospital for more pay, but they can move to the next province, or to the US.
    • int_19h 3y ago
      Doesn't Canada (or maybe individual provinces) also have artificially imposed limits on how many new doctors there can be each year?