Why do you think nobody important (politicians, primarily) is really trying to solve those major healthcare problems?

If politicians are willing to pork and barrel over a random soy farm employing 2000 people, for sure they're not going to throw away, say, 5% of the US GDP and possibly 5% of all employment in the US.

I don't know how you're going to get out of it...

[1] "There were 22 million workers in the health care industry, one of the largest and fastest-growing sectors in the United States that accounts for 14% of all U.S. workers, according to the Census Bureau’s 2019 American Community Survey (ACS)."

https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/04/who-are-our-h...

20% https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Sta....

Absolutely bonkers. One of every five dollars goes to healthcare.

To put this further into perspective: the US military budget is immense, as we know… and it clocks in at 3.7% of GDP [1]

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/266892/military-expendit...

To put it even further into perspective, that's 2x as much as comparable western nations with single-payer, who have similar or better outcomes in most cases.

We have this health system to avoid taxes, but this crazy US system probably costs 97-98% of Americans pay more for health stuff than all of their actual taxes combined.