I really don’t think doctor salaries are the primary difference when they make up less than 10 % of health care costs:

> However, new research by Stanford health economist Maria Polyakova and colleagues — using unique data on physician income — shows that physicians’ personal earnings account for only 8.6 percent of national health-care spending

https://siepr.stanford.edu/news/just-how-much-do-physicians-...

This is a more comprehensive survey that’s light on methods but from a respected industry watcher with similar conclusions:

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2...

That’s the thing about American health care costs. We pay so much more than everyone else, but there’s no obvious single thing that costs more, or even a few factors together. It’s a ton of different things all adding up. Which means it’s very hard to fix, because there are so many different things you’d have to fix.