Canada’s doctor shortage is no accident - It was policy.
Both in Canada and the U.S., governments explicitly chose to train fewer doctors. We’re still dealing with the fallout. In the U.S., a 1980 government report forecast a “physician surplus” by the year 2000. It was wrong, and it justified the staffing bottlenecks that define today's familiar state of healthcare crisis, both in the profit-centric U.S., and in Canada’s relatively...