Oh, and “making more doctors” isn’t as easy as it sounds. The staff to train physicians doesn’t grow on trees, there is an infrastructure problem that you can’t just throw money at. Guessing at future physican needs has a horrible track record, a fellow resident once spoke up at an AAMC meeting to raise the fact that over their career female medical graduates (now 50%+ of most graduating classes) were the equivalent of 0.85 FTE compared to male grads. This being politically incorrect, nobody wanted to discuss it.

Mid-level practitioners have their place, but who’s to determine what the “easily-curable 95%” is? Many things have benign early symptoms, and who’s going to be cool about a missed meningitis treated as an “ear infection”? “Whoops” does not cover it.