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Re:Why doctors in America earn so much by Calavar on Thursday November 02, 2023 @02:34AM (#38109713)
The USA also has significantly more doctors per capita than the Anglophone countries (Canada, UK, Australia, NZ) and still has higher cost of care and worse healthcare outcomes than any of them.

I've been saying this for a long time: doctor-scarcity is a red herring. Training more physicians or nurse practitioners or physician assistants will not bring down healthcare costs.

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Re:Why doctors in America earn so much by cloudier on Thursday November 02, 2023 @03:03AM (#38109917)
Source for your first claim? All the charts I’ve seen online (see [1] for an example) show that the other Anglophone countries you’ve listed now have more doctors per capita than the US. (It looks like this was not the case in the past.)

[1] https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/b39949d7-en/index.html?i...

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Re:Why doctors in America earn so much by Calavar on Thursday November 02, 2023 @04:24AM (#38110467)
Interesting. I was going off of 2009 data. I am quite surprised that the situation reversed in such a short period of time.
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