This doesn't come close to supporting your claim that (most of?) the entire healthcare cost gap is due to subsidizing innovation, for the reasons I described in my other comment. (ie: Drugs are only ~10% of our healthcare costs.)

Even your own source [1] contradicts the idea that high costs are inevitably caused by this subsidization:

> Why doesn’t competition bring U.S. health-care prices down? The answer: America’s stagnant third-party payment system allows hospitals and doctors to avoid competing on price.