Consider most physicians are hundreds of thousands of dollars down in education debt and have been training in healthcare settings for almost a whole decade, and that significant time has been invested in a previous undergraduate course and to pass the MCAT. I think they are paid accordingly for their investment, and only 8% of that healthcare spending [1] accounts for physician personnel salary.
What is most baffling to me, as someone who isn't from America, is how expensive even the most basic tests are.
A CT or MRI (which are admittedly expensive machines) scan shouldn't cost >$1000, and it probably doesn't anywhere else in the planet.
What is most baffling to me, as someone who isn't from America, is how expensive even the most basic tests are.
A CT or MRI (which are admittedly expensive machines) scan shouldn't cost >$1000, and it probably doesn't anywhere else in the planet.
[1]: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/03/12/702500408/are-...
> Baker estimates that the salaries of the roughly one million doctors in the U.S. account for about eight percent of total healthcare spending.