Comment by cucumber3732842

>It really bothers me that something like 10% of US GDP is just the amount we over-pay for healthcare compared to peer states. It's basically a privatized tax that buys us nothing (or, to stave off pedantry, certainly nothing remotely worth 10% of our GDP) but we count it as something good.

<screeches about "muh jerbs">

     -every medical licensing racket organization

>I worry sometimes about just how much of our GDP is actually fake productivity like that

Way more than anyone wants to admit.