I went to High School and university in Canada in the '70s and '80s. My high school principal (another government employee) made more than any doctor in my town of 6000.
I make a lot less than most people would think. But I will not surrender my freedom to practice the best medicine I know how and make even less than I do now. If national health care gets instituted, I WILL find something else to do. And I am not the only physician I know that feels this way. There will be an even larger influx of foreign docs to cover the holes after many of us quit.