It is expensive, but they are extremely well compensated. Don’t let them BS you. It doesn’t take that long to pay back a million dollars of med school debt

It is expensive, but they are extremely well compensated. Don’t let them BS you. It doesn’t take that long to pay back a million dollars of med school debt at a salary of 400k per year. Bigger issue is low supply: too few medical schools admitting too few students keeps supply Low and prices high. Current doctors love it. (That’s the same reason non-US-trained doctors can’t come to practice here. You can bet that they’d love to at our salaries!) Probably the training process is dysfunctional and needlessly brutal. But that doesn’t make prices high on its own. Just open more med schools, add residency slots, and make it easier for doctors from other places to come here and practice.