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...large extent, regulation is responsible for our health care crisis. This regulation comes in the form of government support of one of the most powerful monopolies in the history of the United States: the American Medical Association (AMA...
...federal government requires that all medical schools be accredited, and it allows the AMA effectively to decide which schools receive approval for accreditation. This means the AMA is actively able to limit the number of practicing physicians in the United States. When consumer demand outweighs the number of doctors available, the rates for medical services rise, and people do not receive the care they need...
...drastic fall in the number of general practitioners is a further consequence of the AMA's control of medical students. As new areas of medicine open up to study, more students opt to specialize rather than to train for general medicine. Thus, the number of doctors is held roughly fixed while the number of students who actually stay with general medicine has fallen over the years. The percentage of students who enter general medicine has fallen to a record low of less than 15 percent, and general medicine is an area where the nation desperately needs more practitioners...
...those currently operating at several hospitals across the nation could become the basis for an efficient alternative form of schooling. At the same, new medical schools of the traditional form might open to further research efforts and theoretical medicine. Most importantly, doctors should be able to practice medicine without AMA accreditation...
Sharfstein and Sagov also questioned whetherthe AMA could act as a true indicator of the willof most doctors, echoing Peterson...