I'm doing simple math based on info on 3 major expense categories to run a single doc practice...which, if riches were to be had, should provide a good living.
The profession has evolved into patient mills...and gee, you think there could be a reason for this?
So you throw out the averages...and since the average doc pulls down 150 per year on their education investment...all must be right with the world...and heavens, we're so backward that we think doctors are important and might deserve compensation.
Not disputing that we pay more. What, though, do we really pay more for? Only 20 cents on the dollar for healthcare goes to doctors.
In 2000, (and I can't imagine it being much better now) the cost of overhead (and who, I wonder, designed the payment system) was 31% http://www.pnhp.org/...ons/nejmadmin.pdf
Part of that overhead will eat into the docs 20% take, as well.
So, maybe you are taking it out on the wrong people.
(Nah, can't be. They have a nicer car than you. )