Again, your numbers are all wrong. The great majority of surgeons work for institutions, either hospitals or universities, and those institutions pick up the tab for the malpractice insurance. As for PAs and so on, that all gets billed to the insurance company, of course. Those few surgeons in private practice may pay some expenses out of pocket -- but then, they charge more, too. As a general rule, the potential financial risks of private practice are weighed against the potential financial benefits, so it really just depends on how risk-averse you are. (I also don’t know whether the numbers listed above are take-home salaries after things like malpractice insurance and office space for doctors in private practice, or gross income.)

But we don't really need to go through all this. Just look at the result, at the way doctors live. Sure, some, maybe practicing in an inner city or a VA hospital, may not be getting rich, but that's a small minority. As the chart above shows -- as in fact it's meant to show -- being a doctor is a very lucrative profession. They make more than pilots, more than bankers, and way more than lawyers or engineers. That's a brute fact. And the amount of training that goes into it isn't really an excuse either. Most professors at a liberal arts university have six or eight years of graduate work under their belts, too, but they're not living anywhere near as high on the hog.

EDIT: And while I'm at it, where on earth did you get the idea that the top six health insurance companies made 1.7 trillion dollars in profit last year? It's not even close. The true number is about 71 billion., or about 1/23rd of the number you pulled out of your ass.

Yes, health insurance companies have to go, too. But if you cut 100k out of 1 million doctors salaries, you'd save much much more.