I understand the point is not getting more doctors to pay doctors less.
However when people mention how getting more doctors will reduce physician pay naturally the argument they are putting forth is that somehow physician pay in America is higher than it should be.
That consumers are being gouged on scarcity. That physician pay is currently a "problem" that could be remedied if there was sufficient workforce and physician pay is responsible for your astronomical bills.
I do not think the salary has as much room to go down as people think given the 500k plus debt , years of schooling and residency , pressures of working the job , enormous liability , the fact the pay includes zero sick days /vacations , paid days of any kind , benefits, retirement, insurance etc.
My argument as a physician is this is the least of the problems in healthcare financing and your bill.
The two thousand dollar charge for waking into the hospital then promptly walking out was a real world example --not an exaggeration. The amount charged for that one patient would pay my wage for the night and it was 1 in 60 and took approximately 5 minutes. You can only imagine what the other 59 patients getting critical life saving procedures , CPR , etc are getting billed.
If anything reading this story made me think maybe physicians should be taken care of better and have vacations , time off , etc instead of everything being designed to grind them down.