You pay money, you attract interest. One possible solution is to retrain doctors who have quit doing clinical medicine due to obamacare, rehabilitate those that had license issues for non drug abuse problems, or maybe export / outsource this to China as well.

We are going to see shortages of doctors across all fields as baby boomers retire unless the supply chain is opened up. The pinch point is the number of residencies available which for some reason are apparently funded by Medicare.

Pay them and they will come. this also holds true for family medicine, general internal medicine and some other specialities.

Montana raised the rate BY $55,000 from $181,000 to $236,000.

Why can't the work be outsourced to the hospital pathologists? That would handle the salary problem.

It varies by state, but generally unless the individual is under a doctor's care at the time of death, an autopsy is generally required.

Criminal courts will never allow the relaxation of standards because the potential for abuse of civil liberties is too high.