I was really referring more to doctors anesthesiologist and excrement like that. Having to go to school and take out loans for 8-12 years to get paid dick really isn't worth it. Same thing with PAs and stuff like that as well.
You're easily talking 200k+ in student loans, and that's on the low end of the spectrum. Plus not having a full time job until your mid to early 30s
Government getting involved makes all that stuff less attractive.
As far as the other parts of healthcare all its really going to do is make ratios work, and pass off the work of registered professionals to aids and techs and stuff.
No question asked a government run system cuts costs, but what it will do to quality and access to care (waiting time) is a whole different story.
This is incorrect on so many levels. No, doctors do not make 'dick' in a single payer system. And no, they do not have trouble paying off their student loans and eventually making a fortune.
There is not a shortage of doctors or doctors in training in single payer countries. There just isn't. When the US goes single payer, it will level the playing field even more globally.
A major benefit would be doctors becoming doctors to help people, not simply to become millionaires.
Eliminating profiteering insurance companies from the equation, and regulating drug companies (like they are in all 1st world countries) would pay for the system itself.