The planning of U.S. physician shortages (2020)
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The planning of U.S. physician shortages (2020)
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#2Most problems in a rich country like America are entirely created due to backwards, uneducated policies.
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That’s an interesting take.
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#5discriminatory MCATs, brutal STEPS, insane Pre-Med curriculum, and more nonsense designed to cater to white elites who gamed the educational system and less to those who are genuinely trying to help the disenfranchised, unremembered, diverse and more.
Hopefully one day, we'll make it as easy to become a doctor as it is to -- say -- become an Engineer.
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#6Planning and predicting highly variable systems is hard. Long-range interventions are especially risky given the possibilities for unexpected consequences and also the long lead times in fixing the problems.
Central planning on resources has been especially rife with failed examples (the USSR being the all-in poster child.)
As the article points out, the concept of central planning is orthogonal to who is providing the service. With heath care there are a range of national strategies (from fully private to fully public), and the impact of central planning (or lack thereof) can be seen across the board.
So one should be careful of concluding that this is a party-political issue. It seems unrelated to left-right politics, and rather the result of central planning, predicting and modelling.
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Wherever a major problem existed in the past in the US, you can trace its solution back to the federal government almost every time.
There's some truth in both statements, but neither is specific enough to be particularly useful.
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Given the reach and power of the US government, you can trivially define most any problem as being due to a lack of or surplus of government involvement.
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#9Socialism or Barbarism.
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