Provider salaries are often neglected in discussions of the causes of American healthcare expenditures.
Not only do our orthopedic surgeons make obscene amounts, our nurse practitioners, physicians assistants, and even nurses are by far the highest paid among peer countries (ignoring tax havens and petrostates, I'm not going to go down the rabbit hole of Qatari and Luxembourgian healthcare spending).
Provider salaries are often neglected in discussions of the causes of American healthcare expenditures.
Not only do our orthopedic surgeons make obscene amounts, our nurse practitioners, physicians assistants, and even nurses are by far the highest paid among peer countries (ignoring tax havens and petrostates, I'm not going to go down the rabbit hole of Qatari and Luxembourgian healthcare spending).