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charliehall
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haifagirl,

I agree that you should not force others to pay for your care. Relying on public charity rather than health insurance is irresponsible. THAT is why we need this bill — so that you can get insurance if you are uninsurable!

And you are not correct about the AMA limiting numbers of medical schools. That was done after the Flexner report about a century ago that noticed that most medical schools were not fit to train competant physicians. As a result, most were closed down — as they should have been. Today the barriers are not lobbying by physicians but the high cost of starting a medical school. Yet we are still trying to do so; a new osteopathic medical school recently opened in Manhattan and there are currently efforts to start new medical schools in Long Island, in Virginia, in California, and elsewhere.