The AMA is the association of doctors. Why should they be responsible for paying for the training of more doctors?
If Hospitals and practices paid for their own residencies, they could lower overall costs, and perhaps work on deals with people to encourage them to stay, etc.
This is simply false. Paying for their own residencies would increase hospital costs since they don't currently pay for residency positions, and they're already free to work on deals to encourage residents to stay post-residency, including, for example, supplementing residents' pay.
>The AMA is the association of doctors. Why should they be responsible for paying for the training of more doctors?
Because an Association of Doctors with no Doctors to represent seems like a rather sad sight doesn't it?
Also, considering it is the main force behind setting the barrier to entry, it seems like a bad idea to cut them off from the consequences of the policies they push for by letting them off the hook in terms of not having a fundamental part to play in the training up of new medical talent.
Amazing how the rest of the developed world has none of these issues, no? And yet doctors are quite well-respected and high earners even in those countries.
If Hospitals and practices paid for their own residencies, they could lower overall costs, and perhaps work on deals with people to encourage them to stay, etc.
This is simply false. Paying for their own residencies would increase hospital costs since they don't currently pay for residency positions, and they're already free to work on deals to encourage residents to stay post-residency, including, for example, supplementing residents' pay.