(02-13-2020, 12:38 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(02-13-2020, 12:09 PM)JagNGeorgia Wrote: I’m not sure what you think this would do. Teaching hospitals are simple for doctors to get into. Many don’t directly hire the doctors anyway; the hire a company that has doctors on staff, and the hospital simply extends privileges to them. 

There’s already a minimum requirement that doctors and nurses must meet. Lowering that requirement would lower the quality of service and increase liability in malpractice. More doctors also mean that your bill will be higher. Your bill isn’t only paying for the one doctor you see. The hospital still has to cover the costs of being forced to hire more doctors than it needs. 

There are ways to lower medical costs but hiring more doctors is not one of them.

I mean the teaching hospitals should take on more residents, fresh out of med school.  I'm under the impression that teaching hospitals hire residents directly. Whoever hires them, should be incentivized to hire more.  
More residents become more licensed doctors.
More licensed doctors means more supply. 
More supply for the same demand means lower unit cost

The costs of doctors isn’t the problem with medical costs. It’s the testing, exams, equipment, and medicines that cost so much. We don’t have a doctor shortage problem. The problem is doctors feel obligated to subject everyone to a barrage of testing so that they’re not sued. 

Lowering the standard for qualified doctors doesn’t mean there’s more supply. There is no way to increase the supply of doctors without lowering the quality of doctor. People would still seek out the better doctor when the bad one can’t fix it.

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