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Re:GM’s CEO Offers to Make Ventilators in WWII-Style Mobiliz... by wahern on Thursday March 19, 2020 @02:51PM (#22630442)
When choosing a primary physician at one of the San Francisco Kaiser Permanente campuses, I noticed that a substantial number of doctors had overseas medical training. Which was fine by me--I'm an enthusiastic Kaiser member and support their cost management strategies--but I found it interesting.

Kaiser also recently opened their own medical school: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiser_Permanente_Bernard_J._T...

So they're now using a mixed strategy of both out-sourcing and in-sourcing medical training to address high costs.

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Re:GM’s CEO Offers to Make Ventilators in WWII-Style Mobiliz... by MiroF on Thursday March 19, 2020 @05:40PM (#22632056)
> So they're now using a mixed strategy of both out-sourcing and in-sourcing medical training to address high costs.

Not as much as they could though - there are still federal caps on the number of fellowship seats available as well as pretty strong restrictions for physicians coming from overseas (although if I recall correctly, California has less stringent restrictions than most)

We discuss insurance as a big part of the cost problem, but regulatory capture on the supply end is another huge (and unnecessary) factor.

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