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Originally Posted by Kevin
What part in the cost of health care does the scarcity of M.D.'s play?
It seems that the extremely restrictive enrollment criteria from med schools has really limited the number of doctors.
Could some serious public investment in new med schools or larger med schools help to alleviate some of our cost problems?
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While this is marginally likely, it seems like there is no "exchange" or any sort of market method for utilizing the increased competition.
I've toyed with the idea of starting a sort of "brokerage" for more common services, especially as more people move toward the "personal health savings account" model and will thus (hypothetically) have more control and interest in actual costs. This system would be incredibly useful to the consumer and to the doctor, but would really require a large break from current modes of interaction with payment devices (i.e. insurance) and doctors.
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