It obviously is. A federal government policy decision caps the number of doctors we have, and another federal government policy decision restricts a huge number of basic medical services to those doctors.

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insane_dreamer a day ago | parent [-]

The AMA is creating the bottleneck, not the government directly.

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tptacek a day ago | parent [-]

When the government accepts AMA lobbying and sets a regulatory cap on the number of new residencies, it is regulating, and is fully culpable for doing so. Your logic basically defines the government away, treating it instead as the product of the influences acting on it.

	▲	insane_dreamer a day ago \| parent [-]
		> sets a regulatory cap on the number of new residencies there is no regulatory cap on the number of new residencies there is a cap on _federal funding_ for new residency slots; yes that impacts hospitals' willingness to add new positions, but it's _not_ the same as a regulatory cap