The Most Powerful Medical Association In The U.S. Gears Up To Fight Congress Over Guns

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43. Health care economics

Health care economics is something I am very passionate about and will possibly be my specialization for grad school, your first line of your post concerns me because of the negative connotation towards foreign physicians. Foreign physicians for the most part can only find residency positions as GPs which is what this country needs, the United States receives 45% of all medical immigration in the world followed by the UK at 25%. American medical students are only interested in becoming specialists because that is where the money and prestige is in the field. While there should be some effort to incentive medical students to become GPs, government should look at regulating the high earners in the medical field who. Correct me if I'm wrong because basing this off my memory but GPs earn like 3x the pay of nurses while Specialist earn 20x on average.

Right now the american health care systems spends far too much for the health outcomes it receives, spending 17.1% of GDP and seeing worse or similar results to countries that spend 8-10% of their GDP on health care spending. The primary focus of future health care reform should be cost controls, and improvements designed to increase the supply of physicians by lowering the costs of medical school. In European countries the standards/costs for becoming a physician are far lower and see similar health results, but of course there are many differences such as their medical schools having a normal college failure rate whereas in the US if you get into medical school you have like 99% chance of becoming a doctor.