Healthy people tend to be more productive - so the net effect of having a lot of non-healthy people being treated might well be economically negative. Moving 5-

Healthy people tend to be more productive - so the net effect of having a lot of non-healthy people being treated might well be economically negative. Moving 5-10% of the GDP into something else is disruptive (overall total healthcare is more like 18% GDP in the US, I think), but nothing that didn't happen before. Also, curing people is hard in a lot cases.