There's a growing shortage of developers. What would that look like with more barriers to entry?
You can hire the CEO's nephew for any role. Doesn't mean you are getting anything done. That nephew can buy a medical degree abroad or locally at Harvard.
Twitter/FB going down, realistically, is not going to kill anyone.
Risk management is very real with people's very lives. The price going up is expected because of the filtering needed, but it shouldn't go up as fast as it does in America.
Note that lives are also lost (and much suffering is caused) by the extremely restricted and expensive medical environment. I actually expect that we'd be better off (utilons wise) if we relaxed some of the restrictions.
Socialized, single payer, gov mandated caps, etc etc. There are lots of options. Each come with their own poisons, but far more effective in terms of overall coverage than what we have available in America without material change to the restrictions.
Citation required. This is pure bullshit. Those gates aren't there just because someone said 'hey there should be a gate there.' Those gates are there to solve problems, and while they also create their own problems, that doesn't change the fact that the underlying problems are still there.
Those gates were put in place to solve a problem but in time gets abused.
It also has an effects on quality of instruction. Limiting the number of students tends to increase the quality of instruction, something I believe is extremely important in medicine.
I'm not saying that there are abuses. But you made the claim that the only effect it has is to raise prices, and that is completely wrong.
You can hire a developer off the street who just happened to be the CEO's nephew. You can't do that with doctors.