The AMA is a tax-exempt hedge fund and licensing corporation
When we ask ourselves why healthcare is so expensive in the US, we never seem to point out that it's the health <i>care</i> that's so expensive. As many others have already said, the AMA puts an artificial cap on the number of medical school graduates each year at around 20,000.<p>Anecdotally, I know several bright minds who either pursued a DO or dropped out of medicine entirely because they couldn't pass the med schools' opaque admissions procedures. I'm cynical, but there's something disturbing about the fact that GPs and family doctors have to invest so much time and undertake so much debt just to become professional symptom Googlers.<p>I'm glad this article has the chutzpah to call the AMA what it really is-- a protectionist guild. These doctors make me sick.