> The only solutions are to either get more money into schools to graduate more practitioners, or hope that new technology and innovation can somehow alleviate the burden of work on the existing care providers.
Why can't hospitals simply say to highschool graduates: We will "sponsor" your medical study, i.e. you won't have to take any debt for medical school education, but afterwards you will have to work, say, 10 years for us (with a priori defined salaries)?