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Re:The Illicit Perks of the M.D. Club by maxerickson on Sunday July 03, 2016 @05:31PM (#12027704)
FWIW, when I think about cutting physician pay, I think about incentivizing new supply, as it is likely the most effective way to do it and also probably the fairest.

I definitely have lots of concerns about the mega institutions that are swallowing hospitals. It's hard to believe that they really do much to improve outcomes for patients (and it's pretty observable that they haven't done any good for prices).

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Re:The Illicit Perks of the M.D. Club by carbocation on Monday July 04, 2016 @12:10AM (#12028849)
> FWIW, when I think about cutting physician pay, I think about incentivizing new supply

Sorry for potentially being probably completely obtuse here due to being deep within the structure of medicine, but new supply of what?

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Re:The Illicit Perks of the M.D. Club by maxerickson on Monday July 04, 2016 @12:34AM (#12028898)
Doctors. Grants, loan forgiveness programs, stuff like that should incentivize people to go into medicine. Have to fix the limits on residencies and such too.
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Re:The Illicit Perks of the M.D. Club by carbocation on Monday July 04, 2016 @12:47AM (#12028929)
You don't even need those things. Without them, medical schools still accept less than half of those who apply. Let's say they increase capacity so that everyone who applies gets in somewhere. The bottleneck would still be, as you point out, the number of residency slots that Medicare is willing to fund.
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