Why do physicians in the USA have largest salaries?

Switzerland with $130,000 and $116,000
United States of America with $329,000 and $299,000
Belgium with $188,000 and $61,000
Canada with $161,000 and $107,000
United Kingdom with $174,068 and $85,250
New Zealand with $138,261
Australia with $247,000 and $91,000
The Republic of Ireland with $143,000 and $90,000

Capitalism at work. A better question is why is health care so much more expensive in the U.S. than in other industrialized, wealthy countries. Despite higher healthcare spending, America’s health outcomes are not any better than those in other developed countries. The United States actually performs worse in some common health metrics like life expectancy, infant mortality, and unmanaged diabetes.
https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2023/07/how-does-the-us-healthcare-system-compare-to-other-countries

@phranny said
Capitalism at work. A better question is why is health care so much more expensive in the U.S. than in other industrialized, wealthy countries. Despite higher healthcare spending, America’s health outcomes are not any better than those in other developed countries. The United States actually performs worse in some common health metrics like life expectancy, infant mortality, ...[text shortened]... es.
https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2023/07/how-does-the-us-healthcare-system-compare-to-other-countries

@averagejoe1 said
Other countries, however, have less healthy people, and flood the doctors for care, so that means the cost of health care is spread among more people. Everybody knows that.

@no1marauder said
Life expectancy in every one of the countries you mentioned is higher than in the United States. https://www.worldometers.info/demographics/life-expectancy/

Dutch healthcare is far better than US healthcare, generally speaking.

I would presume insurance costs against law suits is part of the problem, driving up costs and therefore wages.

@averagejoe1 said
Yeah. You could start a thread on that**. Meanwhile, doctors here make a great living and are not going to Netherlands. Or Sweden, where there are salary restrictions for doctors. Brrrrrrrrr

** (This Thread's about salaries, dear king of segue)

@no1marauder said
So they get paid more here for not doing as good a job keeping their patients alive.

That sounds like a flaw not something to brag about.

@averagejoe1 said
Yeah. You could start a thread on that**. Meanwhile, doctors here make a great living and are not going to Netherlands. Or Sweden, where there are salary restrictions for doctors. Brrrrrrrrr

** (This Thread's about salaries, dear king of segue)

@averagejoe1 said
There are a lot of asterisks for y'all to provide at your leisure, no argument, all separate thread subjects. Anyway, we win in salaries. UK is high on list, but Mick Jagger came here for heart operation. How come, you think?
Note that this list of people going as tourists (medically) to other countries does not include the sweet little countries you fellers like t ...[text shortened]... ey
United States

These are in alphabetical order, BTW. No Netherlands or New Guinea listed!!!!!!

@averagejoe1 said
Switzerland with $130,000 and $116,000
United States of America with $329,000 and $299,000
Belgium with $188,000 and $61,000
Canada with $161,000 and $107,000
United Kingdom with $174,068 and $85,250
New Zealand with $138,261
Australia with $247,000 and $91,000
The Republic of Ireland with $143,000 and $90,000

@zahlanzi said
They also have to pay up their student loans with their great salaries. Did you take that into account?

@averagejoe1 said
Switzerland with $130,000 and $116,000
United States of America with $329,000 and $299,000
Belgium with $188,000 and $61,000
Canada with $161,000 and $107,000
United Kingdom with $174,068 and $85,250
New Zealand with $138,261
Australia with $247,000 and $91,000
The Republic of Ireland with $143,000 and $90,000

@athousandyoung said
Luxembourg with $352,300 and $278,900

@averagejoe1 said
You found one. It is refreshing to see an adult, well thought-out response to such a subject. USA google was $329, so Lux, which certainly gets all kinds of high marks by my google, apparently leads the way. Watch out, there is a sniper here that will say....Yeah, but they have to pay off their tuition loan, whatever that all means.
Good search, I assume it was a responsible source, people here are picky. But, I believe it.