With people so worried about health care rationing, why aren't we pushing for increasing the supply of doctors?

Obama has already been working on that. Some of the money from the stimulus was for training and schooling: http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/promi...

Obama has mentioned this as an opportunity to place more minorities in med schools, and Federal grants for educating these minorities. They will then commit to Clinic practices for the inner cities and low income cliental. This suggest those willing to get free college financing will be tools of the Government for who knows how long, and at what salaries. He has also suggested Nurse Praticioners and Physician Assistants as substitutions for MD's in such clinics, working under the supervision of an MD or DO. This is why Obamacare will have to include a Public option, since so many of the cost savings to pay for Healthcare will be in services provided and who provides them. This also reaps of Affirmative Action and lowered standards for admission to Med schools.

Absolutely Great question! But I don't think it is the concern about the care given (you can't produce Doctors and Nurses out of thin air), it is about controlling 17% of the US economy.

To increase supply of doctors you have to increase salaries for doctors not cut pay which will happen if government dictates fair prices for insurance pay outs.

Because there aren't enough Learjets, Mercedes, and basement lap pools.

A mulimillionaire doctor (the best of which are on pharmaceutical corporate boards) is little different than a multimillionaire nun.

What I'd like to know is why we are talking about **** like health care when no one has a damn job to pay for the premiums when it's passed. This bs should NOT be a priority right now.

Doctors would have to go to school for two years and make $30,000 a year.

We are hiring lots of foreign doctors.

the downturn in the economy has left many w/o health care coverage. so, no there isnt a scarcity.....not yet.