But why on Earth should the money doctors get be any less? If anything they could expect to get more since there'd be more people able to make use of their professional skills.

It may be that the proposed system that's been offered in the States is twisted in such a way as to work in way that screws doctors as well as patients by cutting costs to the bone, but that's just a reason to push for a better system that doesn't have those disadvantages and that still provides the kind of comprehensive health care that works pretty well in every other advanced country.

Or perhaps the appropriate way of putting it, that works pretty well in every advanced country.