It’s unclear to me how removing the requirement for an undergraduate degree (side note, it is not actually required at many or most US medical schools) will lower healthcare costs.
> it is not actually required at many or most US medical schools
Source for this? That's surprising to me and a brief Google search tells me the exact opposite.[1]
You really don't understand how reducing the number of years it takes to train a doctor, after they complete high school, will lower healthcare costs? Are you unfamiliar with supply and demand, or the relationship between the cost of production and pricing?
> Every U.S. medical school requires the completion of a four-year degree from an accredited college or university.
However, if we look at the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine as just a single example [1] we see the following:
> "A baccalaureate degree is not required but is strongly preferred by the Admissions Committee."
Given that your reference, "Shemmassian Consulting", appears to be low-quality given that it makes categorically false statements, I won't bother to search for other schools. Suffice it to say that I am aware of quite a few, including my own, that do not require 4-year bachelor's degrees.
Finally, I understand supply-and-demand quite well, and I agree that increasing the supply of licensed US physicians may decrease healthcare costs (but it may not, as excess dollars in the system likely will be vacuumed up by administrators). However, this discussion is about decreasing entrance requirements to medical school, which is completely orthogonal.
