Re:America desperately needs more air traffic controllers
by joenot443 on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @07:38PM
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My simple understanding is that the width of the bottleneck is controlled by existing doctors who are (unfortunately) monetarily motivated to limit the supply of new doctors.
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Re:America desperately needs more air traffic controllers
by nradov on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @10:13PM
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Nope, your understanding is mostly wrong. It's primarily controlled by Congress in the form of Medicare limits on residency funding. And to a lesser extent by the management of teaching hospitals. Most of those people aren't doctors.
At one point the AMA lobbied Congress for those funding limits but they reversed position on that years ago.