&gt; Doctors are already paid absurd salaries in the US<p>To put it in context, when I finish all my training, I will owe over $600,000.<p>It&#x27;s not the doctors being &quot;paid absurd salaries&quot; that makes medical care in this country expensive.  It&#x27;s lawyers - malpractice insurance can take upwards of 25+% of your income - and it&#x27;s insurance companies, who have shareholders they are responsible to, and it&#x27;s hospital administration, whose positions keep multiplying.