Comment by Dylan16807
5 days ago
If we reduce the artificial shortage of doctors then the number of people entering the field specifically to make big money goes down.
5 days ago
If we reduce the artificial shortage of doctors then the number of people entering the field specifically to make big money goes down.
> people entering the field specifically to make big money goes down...
This is a self defeating argument, because for it to work it requires that there is a larger number of people who love the field than the number of people who are in only for the $$$ (or else there will be even more scarcity of doctors)..
Which is not the case.
We have a surplus of people that want to become doctors and would work hard enough to do so. If we removed the artificial limits on residency, the supply of doctors would increase, which lowers wages somewhat, which lowers the number of people that want to become doctors. It reaches a new balance point with more doctors than before.
That itself is a good thing.
For it to also improve the motivations of doctors, all that needs to be true is that someone more motivated by money is more likely to be in the group that switches career.
It does not require the number of people that love the field to be a majority. Not that loving the field is a binary in the first place. People are a mix of motivations and cutoffs are arbitrary.
> It reaches a new balance point with more doctors than before.
But you just pull this "more doctors than before" out of your ass. There is no such assurance. If less people want to become doctors, then eventually there will be less doctors, not more.
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