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Massively boosting the number of doctors (and other direct care providers) would almost certainly have a positive effect on the healthcare system.

There's arguments against it, cost (not a good one, it would reduce costs) and 'quality' (not a good one, there's lots of great potential doctors not getting trained).

There's no forcing anybody to do anything (just removing restrictions on educating people and providing funding for training). It wouldn't even cost all that much (a few trillion over a decade vs $4 trillion annually on medical care).



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