1 million active physicians in the US. At $352k/ year that is only $352 billion in physician compensation, or less than 10% of total healthcare spending.
This appears to be a random pseudonym account so it's unproductive to phrase it in this way, because it requires a lot more credibility to back it up.
A simple counterexample: I clearly think 10% is fine, and I've met at least a few dozen people who share a similar view. Which suggests it's a common enough sentiment among HN readers.
Never seen somebody so aggressively wrong. Just take the L and move on, my dude. Surely you have better things to do than to try to boost your ego by “winning” internet arguments through sheer volume of responses.
There's almost no difference after 'winning' or 'losing', other than extra word count on HN. So if this bothers you so much, asking me seems pointless. Maybe try asking yourself?
You broke the site guidelines extremely badly and repeatedly in this thread—far worse than the other commenter. And it unfortunately looks like you've been posting unsubstantive comments and/or aggressive comments (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37737463) in other places too.
If you keep doing this, we're going to have to ban you again. I don't want to do that, so if you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
> That’s a big chunk of the difference.
The math disagrees with you.