You say "Legal is easy, the most powerful lobby in most states are trial attorneys."
The most powerful lobby in this case is the ABR which carefully constricts coveted residency spots in Radiology to create an artificial scarcity and keep up incomes. It is the opposite of, say, technology, where we have no gatekeeper and supply increases.
The ABR will say that Medicare doesnt fund enough residency spots, but all you need to do is look at an EoB and see that a week of residency billings covers the entire cost of the resident.
If a teaching hospital with an existing radiology residency program wanted to add one more spot, does the ABR have any power to stop them? If Medicare offered more funding to a teaching hospital to add more spots would the hospital turn it down?
The most powerful lobby in this case is the ABR which carefully constricts coveted residency spots in Radiology to create an artificial scarcity and keep up incomes. It is the opposite of, say, technology, where we have no gatekeeper and supply increases.
The ABR will say that Medicare doesnt fund enough residency spots, but all you need to do is look at an EoB and see that a week of residency billings covers the entire cost of the resident.