Comment by pjerem
1 hour ago
It have nothing to do with socialism. The current situation is due to the doctors lobbying for a restricted number of students. This have been in place since 1971 and have now been removed. But training one doctor requires time (8 to 10 years) and … doctors, that we don’t have enough, so we are going to be in the shit for at least another decade.
But it have nothing to do with the healthcare system, just with cupidity.
Notably Cuba exports doctors because they, despite being a poor country, focus on producing doctors. Humans are not a scarce resource, the will to spend the time to train them is what's lacking. High monetary incentives for doctors probably make it worse, as you said encourages expensive gatekeeping and profit motive rather than a desire to actually perform good work for it's own sake.