<<Look at the lifestyle most doctors live. They drive fancy cars and live in huge houses, and make 6 figure incomes, while we're paying for the rest of our life for that unexpected surgery we had to have. Maybe if we cut out all of that extravagant living and made doctors live like ordinary citizens, we wouldn't be paying so much for healthcare. >>


How would you "make" doctors live like ordinary citizens? That is kind of a scary proposition. Are we going to garnish their wages? Jail them? This is American, after all. We all make choices on how we are going to live and where we are going to devote our time and resources. Doctors made a choice to get a medical education and devoted their time, energy and money in that direction. Someone who chose to go into a different direction or didn't put the effort in to be paid well really is not in a position to complain, seems to me. I know a young doctor and she wasn't born with a silver spoon in her mouth and did not come from a family with doctors in the family. She worked hard, saved her money, put off short term gratification and got that MD. She will be paying off loans for years.