Maybe because they work in nice offices as opposed to banana shacks or alleys?
Oh, ok then.
No bias or agenda here. Let's just move along, folks.
Maybe you should have read the rest of the article — Last I knew none of these countries had banana shacks or alley health care - although we do have some of that here, specially if you are poor..
On average, primary care physicians in the United States received $186,582 in pretax income a year, compared with $95,585 in France and $92,844 in Australia. When it came to orthopedic surgeons, there was a similar disparity, with US surgeons taking in an average of $442,450 a year, compared with $154,380 in France, $208,634 in Canada and $324,138 in the UK.