You get paid what you can negotiate, not what you deserve. Any politician that would propose serious enough cuts to physicians pay would suddenly find that the

You get paid what you can negotiate, not what you deserve. Any politician that would propose serious enough cuts to physicians pay would suddenly find that their own GP has dropped him, and his oncologist forgot how treat the politician’s cancer. Sounds extreme? Happened several times in the US. If they’d succeeded, you’d just have waves of immigration to richer countries that can pay higher, called brain drain. The US has the financial resources to attract the best talent. Not just salaries, but resources mean you get to work on things you find interesting, and ignore things you don’t. Regarding “best”. I never said all US physicians are “best”. What I said was, that because of higher pay, the best talent can be appropriately rewarded in the US. How many public single payer systems can afford a physician that bills $10 million per year? More common than you think in the US. They are most certainly outliers, and not the average physicians. The issue is that due to super-specialization game that is medicine, anyone sufficiently experienced is going to be an outlier. Once it comes to something more involved than simple fracture, you want someone who does nothing but works on the specific issue you have, and preferably nothing else. Real example: triple board certified (max fax, ent, trauma) surgeon Kasey Li in the US bills something like 100k per operation. Top talent from Hollywood and top Silicon Valley execs go to him. you’ve seen his work multiple times on several personalities. There is literally not a single surgeon in Australia that is equally as well trained and as experienced as Li. He only works in one area and one issue only. He pioneered an entire new field, changed numerous lives, including some execs that frequent this board, lol. Who are you to decide how much he charges? You not even qualified to assess any his work to begin with, maybe 5-10 people in the world are.