Having seen the working conditions of testers in the video game industry I can say that: > For doctors, that pay is well deserved given the exorbitant student

Having seen the working conditions of testers in the video game industry I can say that: > For doctors, that pay is well deserved given the exorbitant student loans that doctors carry, and the ridiculous shift length and other work related issues. Is pure BS. Many professions end up carrying student loan repayment for decades and that isn't usually used as an excuse for increased pay - additionally there are plenty of professions (and folks working two jobs) that end up putting in more hours than doctors. These costs aren't describable using either of those causes. Additionally, most hospitals are already technically non-profit organizations - it's just that administrators can end up having purely ridiculous take-homes. A single payer system probably is the solution but mostly because of the price setting and ease of billing - if you compare Canada to the US you'll notice that the Board of Physicians sets procedure and drug pricing provincially rather than being left up to a patchwork of random private corporations. (As an aside, I'm both a Canadian-American dualie (American first - I emigrated to Canada) and I work in a company that tracks US Healthcare insurance information)