I spotted that immediately as well. Ptui.
What I’m shooting for is a three stage process.
1) Set up the equivalent of an ROTC program for doctors and nurses. If they sign on the dotted line for free tuition, they owe a number of years of their practice to the US, either in the military, the VA, the Indian Health Service, State hospitals, their denomination’s religious hospitals, or rural clinics. Once that time is served, they are debt free agents. Medical schools, teaching hospitals, and medical associations can no longer turn down academically qualified applicants.
2) Limit medical malpractice claims to actual damages, with criminal referral for gratuitous abuse and malpractice.
3) Eliminate all federal provision of medical care for other than the military, veterans, and the Indian Health Service, with the idea that the latter eventually be privatized.
4) Encourage physicians to set up private practices that do not accept any government health program or insurance. Those of these that already exist cost on average half of what customers usually pay.
Yes! So right.