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Nearly 12% of the workforce is in the health care sector.
Let's review.
per the net sifter. If you don't like these numbers, bring numbers from another credible source.
France has significantly more doctors per capita than the U.S., with roughly 3.3 doctors per 1,000 people compared to the U.S.'s approximately 2.6
The U.S. generally has a slightly higher or comparable number of nurses per capita than France, though figures vary by source and year, with some data showing the U.S. around 8.5-12.5 nurses per 1,000 people and France around 10.9-12.2 per 1,000, placing the U.S. slightly ahead or neck-and-neck depending on the specific dataset used from organizations like
KFF/Peterson Tracker or World Population Review
So the US and France have roughly equal concentrations of people who actually care for patients.
The US has a significantly larger share of its workforce in healthcare (around 16%) compared to France (about 9%)
, indicating a more labor-intensive system in the US, though France has more healthcare workers per capita in certain roles, reflecting different care models with higher utilization (visits, hospital days) but lower costs and better population health in France
By the sources the net sifter uses, the US healthcare industry occupies an additional 7% of the entire US workforce. As the concentration of doctors and nurses is roughly the same, what does this extra 7% of the entire workforce do? Are they "administration", aka "paper shufflers", that I started this discussion barking about? And why are these paper shufflers supposed to have guaranteed employment, when the rest of us are seen as expendable?
Steve
