https://lcme.org/directory/accredited-u-s-programs/
At one point the AMA did lobby Congress to restrict the number of residency slots but they long since reversed that position and now lobby for an expansion.
You would think that Hospitals would be able and willing to pay for residents.
Something doesnt add up.
Why would you think that? Pay... out of their profit margins... to reduce their profit margins? Or do you mean in la-la-land where American CEOs make investments that are likely to show returns only 10+ years out in the future?
Anyways, a huge number of hospitals are non profit and still have the residency issue. There is something systemically fucked going on if a hospital can't turn a profit on a MD with "only” 8 years of postsecondary education, and needs 4-6 years more
As a hospital, they also have no incentive to treat people earlier in disease progression with less expensive care or anything. Just let the ailments fester until they have to be rescued with the most expensive interventions on the planet.
No one said anything about "not turning a profit." If you think a profit-seeking organization exists only to turn a profit, you misunderstand the enterprise.
They're one of the largest lobbying groups in America with disastrous consequences. They have a consistent history of empty promises, including their rhetoric on expansion which hasn't been successful despite the years they've had and the political leverage during the national health emergency. https://www.zippia.com/advice/largest-lobbyist-groups/
Here's a differing opinion from yours where "The American Medical Association (AMA) bears substantial responsibility for the policies that led to physician shortages". https://blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2022/03/15/ama-scope...
I hear about how wealthy and powerful the medical community is yet they shift the blame at every opportunity. I hope medical schools require students have a spine too.
You are not engaging with the question posed, merely listing a number of cynicisms tangential at best, or factually incorrect at worst.
Independent practices generally cant operate licensed residency programs. Similarly, your model of hospital behavior ironically requires them to forgo money could make today to cash in on expensive interventions decades in the future - exactly what you claim they are incapable of doing.
Last, you claim doctors are a dime a dozen, yet hospitals pay 4, 5, or 600k to employ them, and frequently close due to an inability to secure them at reasonable costs.
It's always disappointing to see this kind of lazy, low-effort comment on HN. This is all public information that you could easily find if you bother to look.