Mondo Times Health Poll Archive

This poll ran from August 13 to 19, 2007.

Mondo Stars Poll Results

Do American doctors make too much money? Yes 898/65% No 473/35%

Votes: 1371

In the article "Sending Back The Doctor's Bill," published in the July 29, 2007 issue of The New York Times, Alex Berenson writes that "Prescription drugs cost, on average, 30 percent to 50 percent more in the United States that in Europe. But the difference in doctors' salaries is far larger.

"Doctors in the United States earn two to three times as much as they do in other industrialized countries. Surveys by medical-pratice management groups show that American doctors make an average of $200,000 to $300,000 a year. Primary care doctors and pediatricians make less, between $125,000 and $200,000, but in specialties like radiology, physicians can take home $400,000 or more.

"In Europe, however, doctors made $60,000 to $120,000 in 2002, according to a survey sponsored by the British government in 2004."

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