They are booked out, because the insurance makes them go thru mutliple loops, wasting an insane amount of time. My dentist had to make 4 separate appointments for a root canal/crown, because the insurance required proving each sub-procedure, with x-ray for each one of them, that otherwise wouldn't be required. and I could've had it done in two.

You're really falling for the fascist lie of "people are getting dumber"

I don't understand why we need a plan.

When cheif of the fire department needs more people; They hire more.

When the chief of police needs more deputies; They hire more.

When the chief of medicine needs more nurses... Wait we don't have a cheif of medicine? Hu. Werid...

Education isn't the bottleneck, residency is. Plenty of qualified doctors coming out of med school that don't get residency, so they have to try again next year (and compete against fresh grads).

Raising residency limits is, of course, unpopular because it means more doctors, which means less demand, so less pay to cover med school loans...and nobody wants med school to cost less. Least of all the people buying up those loans. Read: rich folk that live on investments.

The rate at which new doctors are trained in the USA has historically been bottlenecked by the number of residency program slots available. Hospitals financially benefit from each resident they employ, but not as much as they do from adding other roles, instead (such as nurses). Also, it is not trivial to create a new residency program or expand an existing one (accreditation requirements, other fixed costs, etc.). This is why 25 % of USA physicians are immigrants. The Republicans have also made it more expensive to get loans for medical school, which will discourage some people from going to med school in the future, although the insufficient supply of residency slots might still end up being the bottleneck.

But even if we did not increase the supply of doctors, moving to Single Payer would still benefit us by reducing cost. I don't think Single Payer would need to be coupled to increasing the supply of physicians.

The number one cause of personal bankruptcy in the USA is healthcare. At this point, what is worse, losing everything to a massive dumpster fire, US healthcare, waiting for treatment or croaking because your health insurance sucks shit.

Edit: wait, I can see the tsunami coming, I made the mortal mistake of commenting on American affairs. Fuck this shit I'm out.

To be fair, the Democrats had control of Congress during an earlier term too (2009-2011), and in that term they passed the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). When was the last time the Republicans passed anything beneficial at all, let alone as beneficial as the ACA?

That's literally the point of Universal Healthcare provided by gov, they force medical costs to go down by going to the drug companies "well if you don't reduce price, we won't buy it, and we're the only shop in the whole country"

Look at the price Germany pays for FLUOROURACIL VITANE 50ml - €3.66

Same exact drug, same exact dosage in USA - $15.99

(Looked up a price comparison and copypasted the first price I found)

I get paid every time I say Carl's Jr. Carl's Jr.

I just assumed that they were on his desk and would be related to some kind of grocery prices discussion.

Conspiracy Theory: Accelerationist Trump

Sure he did, same way Bush won Florida when his brother was in charge of the count.

They have more faith in the democratic party than I do LMAO

Voting against your own interests is a common thing that happens in democracies.

So who exactly is this statement supposed to appeal to?

Left leaning voters specifically. He knows Democrats won't be able to bring forth Universal Healthcare in a term or maybe even 2. It's just to rile leftists and set up Democrats for a failure he knows they won't be able to commit to.

When Trump uses words like "we" and makes speeches, he is only referring to his donors and henchmen.

We aren't even a thought for him, not even his cult

Which is BS of course, expensive healthcare makes people skip on prevention which leads to worse health and more expensive treatments. You just have to look to the US to see that.

There are people, who are afraid, free healthcare will lead to people not taking care of their health

They are usually the same people that weighs 350 pounds and don't trust vaccines.