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Emperor,

Increasing the supply of doctors is unlikely to decrease the price of health care. Doctor reimbursements are generally not set by the physician, they are imposed by Medicare/insurance. Also, with plenty of physicians in financial binds already due to malpractice costs and declining overall reimbursements (particularly primary care providers) you are unlikely to find a large number of people who want to be physicians who have been denied the opportunity unless you lower standards for admission or take a large number of foreign physicians.

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You & guids make good points about the malpractice insurance. There are solutions.

1. In my state, Ohio, Malpractice insurance is not required by law. Some doctors then hide their personal property in LLC's or Trusts and are virtually lawsuit proof. (not really a good solution imo)

2. Somehow stop letting juries award multimillion dollar judgements because they feel sorry for the plaintiff and their family, EVEN though there was NO malpractice. (I don't really like artificial caps on judgements, but it seems to be an interim solution)

This is a good point, EVERYONE wants to complain about how expensive health insurance is to purchase, but hardly anyone complains about how expensive malpractice insurance is.