The only way you can sell that is to make med school free. My wife is a pharmacist. She makes over $100,000 a year, but she has over $250,000 of student loan debt. For MDs that is double. You can’t ask doctors to do all that schooling and rack up over a half a million dollars in student loan debt and take a significant pay cut. Most people in this country is not going to support that.
I understand doctors and health workers in other countries don’t make as much as US MDs/health workers, but they also don’t have the amount of student loan debt American doctors have. So the only I would support what you are saying is if the cost of med school and other health related schools go down dramatically.
I'm not sure what you're saying. My whole point is that being a doctor isn't the only essential position in society yet it seems to be the only one people are demanding sustain incredibly high pay. The government using its leverage to reduce doctors salaries and bring healthcare costs down to international levels isn't a mechanism to boost teacher or social worker salaries. Those are separate issues that should be corrected on their own.
