Not great, but also: people above this asked why the system doesn't get reformed, and the answer is that doctors are popular with the voting population, and tac

Not great, but also: people above this asked why the system doesn't get reformed, and the answer is that doctors are popular with the voting population, and tackling their salaries will only have a modest impact in reducing costs. This is not to say that doctor's pay shouldn't be addressed, but the system doesn't get reformed because every discussion on fixing it gets derailed into a discussion of doctor's pay, which is literally the highest-effort lowest-payoff part of the problem. And the situation stays bad because of this dynamic.