One thing that would help a lot especially in low income and rural communities would be to increase the powers of registered nurses to practice a lot of basic care. Frankly, nurses studied enough to care for stuff like bacterial throat and ear infections, dermatitis, stitching minor cuts and things like that.
> One thing that would help a lot especially in low income and rural communities would be to increase the powers of registered nurses to practice a lot of basic care.
RNs already practice in many states and yet there is a shortage.
Is it the government regulation, or the American medical association?
From my limited knowledge the AMA has attempted to restrict doctors from non American schools from practicing in the USA.
While there are probably minor legitimacy/ educational standards, concerns with immigrants and foreign doctors, let's face it. This is really about supply restriction and increasing the value of doctor's education.
I believe the AMA is also involved in certification of medical schools. They very likely are restricting the supply of doctors that way as well.
I believe the AMA is always opposed as well to the implementation of intermediary skill levels between nurses and doctors such as nurse practitioners.
Obviously the AMA will be opposed to ai-based diagnostic tools and other types of things which will further undermine Dr. Value
Anyway, there are four pigs at the trough of medical care: insurance companies, drug device manufacturers, Doctors providers, and trial lawyers.
Restriction of supply doctors is just one aspect of the entire problem. It's a big aspect. Don't get me wrong.
> From my limited knowledge the AMA has attempted to restrict doctors from non American schools from practicing in the USA.
That is not the case. Rather international medical school graduates also need to complete their residency training in the US even if they finished one elsewhere. So what happens is recent IMGs complete the US medical exams and directly apply for residency training in the US.
However many of these requirements are made on a state be state basis and some are starting to loosen up residency training requirements if it was completed elsewhere.
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The author is an anti-"woke", Austrian-school libertarian cultist, social media stoic who thinks that women only exist to be semen receptacles.
Based on his online footprint it appears as though he is obsessed with women's fertility to the point of derangement.
This is odd because an actual libertarian (and not just someone using libertarianism as a shield to deflect criticism of their fucked up views) would view the right of the individual to control their procreation as an absolute.
He's the kind of podcasting loser who claims to be an expert on masculinity despite having never done a single culturally-defined masculine thing in his entire life.
To him the problem with the medical system is that the insurance companies have more than zero regulations covering them.
Trying to have a productive conversation with someone like this has about as much value as trying to convince a member of Heaven's Gate that chopping off their penis is a bad idea.
And the evidentiary weight/correctness of his statements is the same as Heaven's Gates' on Comet Hale–Bopp.