Whoah, that smuggles in an enormous assumption: that a dollar directed to a medical professional is automatically well spent. In reality, medical professionals in the US make drastically more money than they do in Europe and deliver way more procedures (they're often working on "RVU" scales that incentivize delivery of more procedures).
This is something that makes health care economics really difficult to discuss: everybody trusts their doctor and factors them out of the equation; the problem is every penny that doesn't go to their doctors and specialists. But that's not a valid analysis and your doctor and their support system is (after elder care) at the heart of US health spending.
This is something that makes health care economics really difficult to discuss: everybody trusts their doctor and factors them out of the equation; the problem is every penny that doesn't go to their doctors and specialists. But that's not a valid analysis and your doctor and their support system is (after elder care) at the heart of US health spending.