Roughly 12% of the workforce is in the healthcare sector,

from the net sifter: Workforce Share: Around 5.3% of the French workforce is in healthcare.

Less than half the staff, but they deliver better outcomes. It is anecdotal, but I have read of doctors in private practice, in the US, crying a river, about the amount of staff they need, to handle insurance company paperwork. There used to be a Brit ex-pat, living in France, on the Fool. He talked about how France had wrung administrative overhead out of the system. When the doc was done with him, the receptionist would swipe his national health card, type in the codes for what the doc did, and payment would be in the doc's bank account, before he was out the door.

Ordinary people, hard-working people, people like doctors and nurses and orderlies and whomever that are sympathetic in any political context.

That is what "JCs" say, when they want a government handout "bail the company out of the bad decisions we in management made, or all these Proles will be out of work". Is the US healthcare system supposed to, primarily, be a "make work" program?

I am epically stubborn, but, how has the rest of the "first world" delivered better outcomes, at lower cost, than the US?

Steve