The private, for profit "health care" industry in the U.S. is a long-running train wreck of greed, corruption, and utter failures to provide quality health care while raking in massive unearned profits.
Out of their spare change, the health care industry is now spending over $700 million a year now on tracked lobbying spend on politicians to keep their spigots of massive profits and no accountability wide open.
Health Lobbying Profile
$745,396,217 total was spent lobbying in the Health economic sector in 2023. See the details.www.opensecrets.org
And that really is just spare change, the pharma industry alone also invests a billion dollars a month in the U.S. on advertising - mostly trying to get people to request (insanely expensive) drugs from their doctors they probably don't need.
Yeah, recently listened to the Behind The Bastards podcast episode on health insurance fraud and that was quite an eye-opener as to a whole other way in which the US system is messed-up (that I'd never heard about before). Seems to be remarkably easy to set yourself up as a fake doctor and prescribe unnecessary (or even harmful) treatments and get paid by the health insurance companies (who, bizarrely, don't seem to care very much about fraudulent claims, they just increase premiums to cover the costs)
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