Likewise lawyers live off of laws being hard to understand, and the legal system being hard to navigate. Fixing the US health care system would probably also d

Likewise lawyers live off of laws being hard to understand, and the legal system being hard to navigate. Fixing the US health care system would probably also destroy quite a few jobs in health insurance and medical billing. It turns out overcomplicated and wasteful systems also make jobs. So even if fixing the system would be better for society in the long run, all the lobbyists have to say is "doing that will destroy X jobs" and the politicians will be scared into inaction.