If you had to choose between having more doctors or having fewer doctors, which would you pick? I would strongly prefer more, in order make health care more accessible and more affordable.

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“The number of practicing physicians per person in the United States is lower than in just about any other developed country. Yet from 1980 to the early 2000s, the prevailing wisdom was that the number of physicians within the United States ought to be reduced.

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"During this period...both private and public actors took actions to constrain the supply of U.S. physicians, the most significant of which was the medical school moratorium. The resulting dearth of physicians had the effect of making U.S. health care...less accessible..."

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