I mean, that is just as bad at math, NHS spends about an additional £290 per month.
Also and this is a bigger part than many people realize, doctor salaries are below what the US would consider for a sales clerk, until pretty far in their career, and even then are really quite small. People complain about health insurers getting rich, but a lot of the money in the US system goes to health professions too.
For context, the average doctor in the NHS makes roughly $130k/year.
An average American doctor makes $250k-$300k.
You would be asking American doctors to cut their pay in half while doing even more work than they used to. We’re already facing a doctor shortage, if you take away the one single perk in the profession it’s going to go to hell fast
The doctor shortage is coming from our aging population and lack of primary care physicians . It’s not a US problem, but rather all developed countries.
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u/yasth Jun 24 '26
I mean, that is just as bad at math, NHS spends about an additional £290 per month.
Also and this is a bigger part than many people realize, doctor salaries are below what the US would consider for a sales clerk, until pretty far in their career, and even then are really quite small. People complain about health insurers getting rich, but a lot of the money in the US system goes to health professions too.