It's because the US healthcare system is a nightmare combination of extreme government control & regulation, and corporatism. They socialize the cost and privat

It's because the US healthcare system is a nightmare combination of extreme government control & regulation, and corporatism. They socialize the cost and privatize the profit, to the benefit of a small percentage of the population that works in those fields or invests into them. It's a very large, regressive wealth transfer. You can only do that with the intentional, direct assistance of the governments (federal + state governments) as enablers that protect the healthcare cartels and worker guilds.