alt Hacker NewsRight.... but it is also an industry that provides an insane amount of (often well paying) jobs to a large amount of people to do "make work", admin tasks.
Reliable details are hard to come by, but some estimations are that more people in the industry are doing admin tasks than instead of providing care, admin tasks that will be reduced drastically once the industry is streamlined.
Once we get affordable care there will be less people who can... afford.
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> Once we get affordable care there will be less people who can... afford.
This just plainly isn't true. The US is unique in the way it doesn't have affordable public healthcare, but the rest of the western world doesn't have an affordability problem because of less bean counters scamming patients.
This is what's called the "broken window fallacy"
So is that a defense of the broken system?
Feels like their job is mostly to enrich the corporations profiteering from these inefficiencies, they're doing admin fighting the sick and dying who also gained the job of admin of fighting them (a job thrown at them to - in a lot of cases - literally save their lives, financially and physically).