[wyre]

Wages for doctors and staff are not the cause of high medical bills.

The US spends something like $4.9 trillion dollars on medical care, and employs around 1 million physicians, 4.5 million nurses, or 9.8 million health care workers in total [1].

If this was paid out in wages the average health care worker would be make almost $500k/year. Compare that to the wage of the average doctor at $335k/year [2] or average nurse at under $100k/year. There is a lot of money in medical care that is not going to wages.

[1]https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/04/who-are-our-h...

[2]https://www1.salary.com/Doctor-Salary.html