Long Waits for Doctors’ Appointments Have Become the Norm

[Aristus]

21. At least one component of this problem is an insufficient number of primary care providers.

When a doctor graduates from medical school, he or she often has anywhere from $100,000-200,000 in student loans to pay back.

The fastest way to pay them back is to specialize (gastroenterology, urology, etc.) so you can bill for expensive procedures.

One solution (which the US will never adopt, by the way) is to send medical students to school on the tax-payers dime. When they graduate, they will be obligated to practice as primary care providers for a certain set number of years as a way of paying back their schooling costs.

They do this in a number of European countries, which is why it will never happen here. The right-wing has successfully conflated 'European' with 'socialist' even though most of them are very successful capitalist economies.