We need more kids wanting to grow up to be doctors and less wanting to be lawyers.
As a practicing lawyer for the last 25 years I follow the trends pretty closely. Law school enrollment is down nearly 40% in most states. There just isn't enough work any longer to sustain prior levels of enrollment. Of the roughly 215 law schools in this country we would do well to close at least half of those. It cost a lot and isn't worth it to the great majority of new lawyers.
We need more people going into the health care field. That's a given.
If the government ends up running all of healthcare we will see fewer new doctors because they will make much less money under a government system and fewer people will go into the field. For example Medicaid pays about 55% of what the private market pays and Medicare is a little better at 75-80%. As a result it's hard for patients under these programs to find doctors who will provide services.
Just wait until we have a single payer system. Everyone would theoretically have benefits but it reality it would be hard to get the services you need. That's how it works in Britain, Canada and lots of other countries. This kind of system is OK if you have small common problems like a sinus infection but if you have a serious illness like cancer or heart disease you're not going to get the level of care people get in the US. Aggregate statistics show that people in the US who have serious diseases live significantly longer than they do in Canada. And that was true before Obamacare was implemented. One of the main reasons is that they have much less medical infrastructure (think MRI machines) and people have to wait a long time for critical diagnostic tests.
Single payer may sound good but it will result in lower quality health care and rationing by the bureaucracy.
