a) The USA pays more for drugs than the rest of the world does.
b) private health insurance is really inefficient.
c) The US doesn’t do public and preventative health very well.
d) The US wastes money overtreating rich people and undertreating poor people more than other countries.
e) The US does a bunch of expensive and more importantly counterproductive end-of-life care than other countries.
f) The US pays its doctors more than other countries because the supply is artificially restricted and governments don’t push back like they do elsewhere.
D and E are simply the result of healthcare consumers choosing to spend their money on care that wouldn't even be available under a public system. Taking that into consideration, "look how much of our GDP we spend on healthcare" is not the glaring indicator of a broken system that people make it out to be. People are allowed to spend their own money.
a) The USA pays more for drugs than the rest of the world does. b) private health insurance is really inefficient. c) The US doesn’t do public and preventative health very well. d) The US wastes money overtreating rich people and undertreating poor people more than other countries. e) The US does a bunch of expensive and more importantly counterproductive end-of-life care than other countries. f) The US pays its doctors more than other countries because the supply is artificially restricted and governments don’t push back like they do elsewhere.