A common complaint in the American healthcare debate is that physicians make too much money, and that their pay is a major reason healthcare is so expensive. But a U.S. surgeon recently spent an administrative day crunching the numbers, and he argues the reality doesn't match the outrage.
“Physician salaries account for roughly 8.6% of total healthcare costs [in the U.S.],” the surgeon wrote in a Reddit post on r/Salary. “It's around 10% in Canada, 15% in Germany, 11% in France, 11.6% in Australia, and 9.7% in the UK.”
