US Doctors' High Pay

why would doctors willingly give up making extra hundreds of thousands of dollars?

You can't speak for other countries, but you can for all of the US? Then explain these articles:"Doctors Under Pressure to Meet Quotas and Fill Hospital Beds" [1]."Once hospitals have made such a huge investment, experts like Dr. Zietman say, doctors will be under pressure to guide patients toward proton therapy when a less costly alternative might suffice." [2]"While payments vary widely, doctors often collect $500 to $700 for a typical M.R.I. done on an o

i wouldnt be surprised if doctors hared him for not making them the most profit possible, rather than anything about the sick and needy.

Your expectations are unreasonable. The medical system is extremely expensive to operate. Highly paid physicians should be reserved for delivering the most complex care.If consumers need guidance on making healthier lifestyle choices then doctors aren't even the best source. Utilize cheaper professionals for that stuff: therapists, counselors, social workers, dieticians, personal trainers, etc.

It's true that US doctors are paid more (although the gap isn't as big as it used to be). However, pay for US doctors makes up a fairly small portion of overall US medical expenditures (less than 10%). So, you could ask every doctor to work for free and not significantly change costs.

I don't disagree per se, but it seems from reading the article that they're bemoaning the shortage of qualified doctors and how they're all spent cause they have to work within the confines of centrally planned subsidy prices.Really they should be charging as high as possible directly to consumers until doctors are attracted into the profession. Cut out the middleman, there is no reason that routine expenses like a sick visit that gets routine labwork or medication need to be i

There's a reason doctors drive nice cars and wear nice shoes; they are collecting monopoly rents. The doctors and nurses are the ones extracting the vast majority of the wealth from the ever-growing healthcare sector. The problem is that saying we want more, lower-quality doctors, and cheaper foreign ones to improve services and reduce our expenditures is politically unpopular.

What a surprise - it is easier to get doctors to do things that increase billing than it is to get them to stop doing something if it decreases billing. It is almost as if money is more important than the patient.

Another (darker) perspective: they don’t want to lose money. Healthcare in the US is expensive in no small part because we pay more for things (duh). One of those things is physician time. Primary care physicians in the US make $60K more a year than comparable nations [1].Dirty secret of healthcare: “efficiency” translates to “I make less money” for almost everyone in the system, very much including doctors. All will protest and justify their cost, all will make good arguments in the individu

These doctors are not working for free, are they?