[AHatLikeThat]

Maybe in large urban areas, and if you can afford insurance at all. In rural areas, even smaller urban areas, there are few physicians, long waits and not enough facilities. [https://www.krqe.com/health/new-mexico-needs-hundreds-of-hea...]

[arebop]

It's the same in San Francisco, where we support returns to investors in residential real estate by banning new development since the 1960s and therefore doctor salaries don't afford a luxury lifestyle [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/03/business/economy/high-end...] and therefore we have a shortage of physicians.

[pyuser583]

San Francisco is also overwhelmingly young and healthy.

[KerrAvon]

Between COVID and the millennial cohort in SF, that's not going to be true very much longer, if it is at all today.

[HDThoreaun]

This is because congress wont expand residencies so there arent enough doctors. Doctors make a bunch of money and can live anywhere they want, almost none of them want to live in bumfuck.

[echelon]

Remove the residency cap, allow foreign doctors to immigrate and quickly certify their skills, allow nurses to attend night school to become doctors, etc.

[HDThoreaun]

I agree this is the solution rural medicine needs.