[cocoa19]

Huge salaries are not the direct problem, high cost of schooling in the US and the requirement to have an undergrad are.

Other countries allow you to go straight from high school to medical school, plus other countries have free schooling.

[nradov]

I'm all for lowering the cost of higher education but I'm skeptical that would bring down the cost of healthcare. Doctors who have long since paid off their student loans don't seem to be volunteering to take lower salaries; rather the opposite.

One approach could be to expand the availability of accelerated Baccalaureate-MD programs. Those cut education time by up to two years but are currently available at only a few schools.

https://students-residents.aamc.org/medical-school-admission...

[njtransit]

No, the issues is that the AMA convinced congress to limit the number of residencies available, which acts as a hard cap on the supply of doctors.