And think about the cost difference on any given year, despite the length increase. Doctors tend to graduate with 170k in debt. On average, they're paid $60-70k

And think about the cost difference on any given year, despite the length increase. Doctors tend to graduate with 170k in debt. On average, they're paid $60-70k per year for 3 years of residency in which they're the most productive they will probably ever be in their lives. As usual in the US, the middlemen (hospitals in this situation) have figured out how to perfectly extract all the monetary gains.