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airrow@hilariouschaos.com 8 months agoThe doctor shortage is part of a trend, look up “doctor shortage” on a search engine, for example here is a random article: “Facing a severe physician shortage, feds offer loan forgiveness for some doctors, nurses” cbc.ca/…/ottawa-student-loan-forgiveness-doctors-…
What I’m saying is: what causes this? The cause is pretty clear: regulations of the industry. It takes too much licensing and costs to become a doctor or nurse, so people don’t choose to do it. This is artificially created with all kinds of government regulations. Then, governments also regulated what people could do during the time of “covid” with mandated lockdowns, leading to further shortages. None of these shortages needed to exist but were created through artificial government regulation. So the “shortages” really had nothing to do with “covid”, we could have and should have had more than capacity to deal with a “pandemic”, and this talking point should have not existed (it was artificially created).
The motive for some of these measures is financial, as the working class lost money during the lockdowns while the richest gained: “The billionaire boom: how the super-rich soaked up Covid cash” ft.com/…/747a76dd-f018-4d0d-a9f3-4069bf2f5a93
ExperiencedWinter@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah we should really get rid of those pesky regulations. There would have been plenty of doctors if we just let anyone who decides to call themselves a doctor start practicing medicine.
airrow@hilariouschaos.com 8 months ago
unironically yes! it’s done with programming and many things! What happens is… you, personally, won’t go to any doctor unless they have gone through rigorous training at top schools and you’ll pay top dollar for it. other people, like poor people who may be dying with less options, can get more economical options that may work for them. It’s actually sad more people don’t question things and complain about how expensive things are and how bad of care they get while ignoring the elephant in the room…
ExperiencedWinter@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Wtf is wrong with you? Poor people should be used as guinea pigs for untested doctors? Fuck you buddy, I personally, think we as a society have a responsibility to provide healthcare to everyone, not just the people rich enough to afford it
airrow@hilariouschaos.com 8 months ago
well currently they may not be able yo afford anything and nonprofits o help them as well as affordable options have been regulated away, which is sadly worse