Is American attending life as cushy as the salary makes it seem?

Hi all, I am a junior doctor based in the UK and was recently comparing salaries of doctors. American attendings by far get paid the most. I know they leave medical school with hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt and need to repay it, but after that, are attendings swimming in gold? Or do all the expenses go on things like children's education (which I hear can be up to $50,000 per year in some instances) and malpractice insurance etc? Looking forward to some replies
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