Massive untracked cost of our healthcare system, too. We’re already more expensive per-capita than anywhere else, by a long shot, plus we impose huge costs on p

Massive untracked cost of our healthcare system, too. We’re already more expensive per-capita than anywhere else, by a long shot, plus we impose huge costs on patients and their families in time & stress spent fighting the system. Any good-faith accounting of that would put our costs way in to “WTF is wrong with us that we’re not rushing to fix this immediately by any means necessary?!” territory. There are other hidden costs, too, like government employees who have to deal with private insurance issues for purposes of sorting out benefits and child support and all kinds of things, but aren’t primarily involved with healthcare so I’m sure those hours aren’t counted among costs of our healthcare system. Not sure about the hours (and hours, and hours) HR at entities public and private lose to dicking around with insurers and brokers and HSA providers and such. Doubt that’s counted, but it’s real and significant. Healthcare providers waste lots of money on similar things from their side, but I expect those figures make it in to even fairly naïve system cost estimates.