>If you paid doctors less, there's no reward for spending your entire 20's and early 30s in training, already earning almost nothing. Nobody, especially nobody

>If you paid doctors less, there's no reward for spending your entire 20's and early 30s in training, already earning almost nothing. Nobody, especially nobody talented, will do it. I don't think that's true. If you look at admissions to even second rate schools there are many times more students that there are spots. Students with grade point averages in the high nineties are being turned down and others are not even attempting it because the odds are so slim. Medicine as a profession is very prestigious because it carries a strong association with helping people and requiring high intelligence. Reducing wages might actually increase the quality of doctors because you might tempt some into other professions who are interested in it mostly for financial reasons and bring in some other people who are very passionate but might not have done it because of the very tough competition.