If the healthcare system is designed to transfer as much wealth as possible to the health insurance industry, it's doing a really bad job at it.
[1] https://naic.org/documents/topic_insurance_industry_snapshot... [2] https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Sta...
I'd take a close look at every entity that sells something to a hospital. This is a problem I've seen in publicly-funded healthcare. Private companies will absolutely fleece the government on any kind of good or service that's being sold to healthcare. Drugs, scalpels, tissue paper, everything.
If doctors are so generous, why do they lobby congress to keep the number of residency slots artificially constrained?
https://www.ama-assn.org/education/gme-funding/ama-seeks-mor...
==The American Medical Association (AMA) is disappointed by the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) unprecedented proposal to allow advanced practice nurses (APRN) within the VA to practice independently of a physician's clinical oversight, regardless of individual state law.==
https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/ama-statements/ama-sta...
Hospital systems love them because they can be paid less and they order tons of unnecessary te$t$ing and do lots of con$sult$.
[1] https://www.aanp.org/advocacy/state/state-practice-environme...