Doctors and nurses are only a subset of workers who provide patient care in the US. There are a huge variety of technicians; basically one for every specialty.

Doctors and nurses are only a subset of workers who provide patient care in the US. There are a huge variety of technicians; basically one for every specialty. 9.8 million all-in, plus another 5.3 million other employees involved in less technical patient care (nursing assistants, non-bsn hospice workers, etc). $2T/yr divided by just the 9.8 million = 204,081, which puts average comp in the 160s. Sounds right; around here your average nurse makes about $80k/yr with excellent benefits, and they are sort of the median employee. And that's just the employees providing care. There's also an enormous bureaucracy.