[jzylstra]

> As it turns out, residents are not profitable for hospitals, which is why hospitals don't "just hire more of them".

This isn't quite in line with reality. If you familiarize yourself with specific hospital system figures, you find gems like this: Of Beaumont Hospital's 395 residents, 91 are not covered by Medicare and so are paid for by Beaumont. The $57 million for GME represents 4.73% of Beaumont's net patient revenue in 2013, or about $189,368 per resident. [0]

The 91 residents that are trained within the hospital system without medicaid funding speaks to the fact that residents are in fact employees. [0] http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20150719/news/307199...

[chimeracoder]

> The 91 residents that are trained within the hospital system without medicaid funding speaks to the fact that residents are in fact employees

...nobody ever said that residents weren't employees? The point is that they are and hospitals aren't going to go out and hire more unless it's profitable for them to do so. (Which it isn't, or else they would have done so, and that article even says as much).