SENATE BILL: End the Doctor's shortage Act (Law'd)

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For the record, this bill is largely based on this.

Atlasia at the moment is suffering a shortage of doctors, at the moment it's about 20 000, but that will grow rapidly over the next few years as doctors retire and the elderly population expands.

Ultimately, the main problem is not that there are not enough medical colleges, more are founded every year and existing ones regularily expand, the problem is there are not enough residency slots ever since congress capped them. This particularily impacts speciality fields like cardiology.

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Why was a cap put in place to begin with?


Also, whilst I don't want to repeat everything from the posts in the healthcare thread, it is the case that a shortage of doctors not only deprives people of access to quality care but drives up medical costs (one of several factors causing that), so we definately need to address this problem with a variety of measures.

It was part of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, almost certainly to reduce the amount the federal government spent training doctors.

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Aye