Referring to the CDC link I posted above, physician and clinical services are 20% of total medical expenses. That's your primary care physician, nurses, labs, a

Referring to the CDC link I posted above, physician and clinical services are 20% of total medical expenses. That's your primary care physician, nurses, labs, and specialists. (Hospital care is about 33% of the total.) 20% of $4T is $800 billion. There are ~209,000 primary care doctors in the US (https://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/factsheets/primary/pcwork1/index.html https://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/factsheets/primary/pc...), not counting specialists, etc. Each doctor therefore is responsible for ~$4M. Assuming for no reason whatsoever that specialists and outside labs, etc., take 50% of that, each doctor's practice gets $2M. Making ye olde "everybody costs $100,000 / year" assumption, that works out to 20 people including the doctor: nurses, receptionists, lab techs, janitors, etc. Doesn't sound terribly unreasonable.