do you understand why they get paid that much in the US...?
Physicians per 1000 people:
Germany: 4.25
France: 3.27
USA: 2.61
One of the major reasons the U.S. has low physicians numbers is because med school is just so expensive. You either have to pay a ridiculous amount of money upfront, but more importantly, need to figure out how to pay for your existence for nearly your entire 20s where you’re studying and not earning, or you need to take massive student loans.
That’s just too much of a ln upfront burden or risk for large chunks of the population to take.
Doesn't the US also require that people study medicine as a second degree? That can't help with the costs...
e.g. Here in the UK you can go straight from high school to study medicine at university.
How can they be more restrictive when they are licensing way more doctors? USA is at the bottom of the developed world in number of physicians per capita but also pay the most. The only plausible way that can be true is if USA is the most restrictive in the developed world, like requiring way more years of schooling than necessary or limiting residency spots or limiting how many schools are allowed to educate doctors or making it hard for immigrants to become doctors etc.
Japan has less doctors, but they are also among the healthiest in the world so maybe they don't require as many for that reason. But USA is at the other end of the healthiness spectrum so you can't use that explanation there.