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by fzeroracer 1479 days ago
No, I'm talking about a very literal shortage of physicians in the US. Not a shortage of saints or whatever tangent you're going on. The US has a physician shortage. I will repeat under your argument there should be no physician shortage in the US because the US has among the highest salaries for physicians. This should not happen by the argument you keep repeating.

The fact that someone can see a physician tomorrow with enough money is irrelevant because with enough money they are no limited to the US. Experts are not located entirely within the US, hence why many millionaire/billionaires will travel for medical aid because other countries might have people with more expertise in XYZ.

The rest of your comment is completely irrelevant to the argument I'm making.

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>This should not happen by the argument you keep repeating.

you do not understand how the industry works. salaries are high because the supply is constrained.

supply is capped. by residency availability.

doctors, like many others, don't want to live in some areas, and supply ends up being unevenly distributed.

In any major US metro, you can see a cardiologist TOMORROW. Don't even have to be a millionaire.

https://www.merritthawkins.com/uploadedFiles/MerrittHawkins/...

Let me guess, next will be "but muh AVERAGES"?

You can remain average. Best of luck.

Can you please edit the swipes out of your comments? You've posted good things but unfortunately they're interspersed with hostile/inflammatory bits, and we're trying to avoid the latter here. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

no edit button?

feel free to edit/nuke it, nbd.