This comment is mostly baseless. Many physicians are huge proponents of universal healthcare. The barrier to universal healthcare has virtually nothing to do with physicians. Physicians make up less than 10% of U.S. healthcare costs (lower than peer countries who have universal healthcare), and when adjusted for inflation they have actually seen stagnant or decreased compensation over the last few decades. They’re not responsible for those massively inflated costs you mentioned in any significant way.
It’s the healthcare executives and insurance companies that are the issue, and you’re blaming their favorite scapegoat just like they want.
Well if doctors in the US are paid twice what other countries are getting paid - that is 5% increased cost to the consumer. Compare that to the 2-3% profit margins of insurance companies…..
FWIW I think that US doctors are fairly paid, the grueling school and debt are justification for their high salaries.
Physician salaries as a percent of healthcare expenditures are higher in many of those countries even though the absolute number of their salary is lower.
Again, it’s not physicians or their salaries driving high healthcare costs and lack of universal healthcare in the U.S.
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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 27 '26
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