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The USA also has significantly more doctors per capita than the ither Anglophone countries (Canada, UK, Australia, NZ) and still has higher cost of care and worse healthcare outcomes than any of them.

I've been saying this for a long time: doctor scarcity is a red herring. Training more physicians or nurse practitioners or physician assistants will not bring down healthcare costs.

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Source for your first claim? All the charts I’ve seen online (see [1] for an example) show that the other Anglophone countries you’ve listed now have more doctors per capita than the US. (It looks like this was not the case in the past.)

[1] https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/b39949d7-en/index.html?i...

Interesting. I was going off of 2009 data. I am quite surprised that the situation reversed in such a short period of time.

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