[subject4056]

At the end of the day, much like housing cannot be both affordable and a good investment, healthcare cannot be both affordable and a lucrative career. Avoid going to an MD if you can get the same care from someone else.

[actionfromafar]

So nothing can be done to fix the problem?

[subject4056]

You could get healthcare from someone who doesn't have to go $100ks in debt first, and then expects to make more than you do. If no such person with that profile exists, then yeah you're stuck paying the rate of the system that trained and employs them.

[andrei_says_]

How do health insurance company employees go into 100s of thousands in debt?

You know that the issue is not the salaries of doctors, right? Or the salaries of nurses.

Why are you making such an obvious bad faith argument in public?

[bigyabai]

Specific to the Bay Area, you could travel out a ways see a practitioner that isn't overbooked.