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The assertion that physicians are a primary driver of excess US healthcare costs requires evidence.

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

Physician salaries are a driver, but the far bigger portion lies with insurance’s take, and the administrative costs required to respond to insurance shenanigans.

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Anesthesiology average salaries

US: $438k/yr Australia: $203k/yr UK: £112k/yr

That seems like a big difference to me.

This report, linked in a vox article a sibling post, comes to the opposite conclusion.

https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/brief/what-drives-health...

It calculates US's spending on healthcare to be 87% higher than "Comparable Country Average", and attributes only a 10 percentage point of the price increase to "administration" costs, as opposed the report you linked which estimates 30 percentage points.

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