[vxNsr]

Just to put it more succinctly: you’re in favor of angering all healthcare providers (doctors, nurses, etc) to make healthcare better.

I don’t know if the outcome you want is the outcome you’re gonna get with that strategy. Might want to consider the humans actually affected and how they might react instead of treating everyone as some faceless cabal of evildoers bent on pulling money out of your pocket.

[FireBeyond]

> bent on pulling money out of your pocket

Speaking of which, I am not sure why doctors are allowed to limit the number of doctors who can become licensed each year.

[thfuran]

And also consider that most doctors and nurses probably don't like the way the healthcare system currently works. Certainly none of the dozen or so that I know personally do. Using "makes doctors angry" a proxy for whether a proposed reform is a good idea probably isn't one.

[QuarterReptile]

On the other hand, "makes doctors happy" would lead you to some bizarre local maxima, and we seem to have quite a lot of those already.

[vxNsr]

I just think angering the people who are supposed to be caring for me is a great way to receive subpar care, I don't care how moral and "above it all" healthcare workers are supposed to be, at the end of the day they're human and if you tell them you don't value their hard work, they may just put in a little less effort than you'd like. (just like you might do the same for a boss who belittles you and refuses to give the raise you feel deserve).

As an example, in many countries where they have socialized healthcare, nurses and doctors do often go on strike, which has always resulted in worse care during those times...