You are wrong, salary will be LESS than 170k. It’s going to suck for doctors even MORE than you think.
Here is a real life example of what happens under a welfare state and it’s not even single payer system:
Germany. Multipayer system with compulsory insurance and private insurance. 74% of healthcare spending is government funded, 26% private.
Now look at how their hospitals will pay you:
TV Ärzte: Gehälter aller Arzt Tarifverträge im Überblick. VKA, TdL und Tarife der privaten Klinikverbände + Gehaltsrechner.
www.praktischarzt.de
You can be an attending for THIRTEEN years out and your pay only gets to 120K USD. Their overall taxes will remove over 40% of that too. Your take home pay becomes 70k!! Absolutely horrendous direction to head towards.
Did you know they’re on strike right now for 5% pay increase? Lol
And they work insane hours for the low pay:
“According to a recent survey by the doctors’ union, 40 percent of doctors in German municipal clinics work 49 to 59 hours a week. One in five doctors had even higher weekly averages of 60 to 80 working hours, including all services and overtime.”
famagusta-gazette.com