I would not lay the blame of FBB's bills on the medical education system b/c it's the entire system that's broken. The limit on the number of US docs produced annually is mostly to maintain quality control. Not just any place can hang up a med school sign and churn out high caliber docs ready for the rigors of actually taking care of your loved ones. I already see the look of concern on people's faces when they are confronted with a mere "resident" and can only wonder how much worse things would get w/o the
AAMC's oversight.
I agree that subsidizing medical education would be a great idea as few people really understand what it's like to spend 8 rigorous years in school, graduate with 6 figure debt and earn below minimum wages in an 80 hour work week for anywhere from 3 to 10 years before actually making substantial money that's taxed 40% by the government. Graduating w/o debt would minimize the time spent in fiscal purgatory and maybe even convince some people that they dont have to cut you open or do something to you in order to break even.
Some physicians(e.g.
neurosurgeons, interventional cardiologists, etc) would say that the extra time they spend in training entitles them to far more re-imbursement. However, the problem lies in the fact that all systems currently re-imburse more for procedures when the true cost-savings is in the prevention of disease(i.e. Primary Care). For example, medicare might not have to pay the neurosurgery bill for a spinal fusion if that one pt had not been morbidly obese for 30 years.