[Goladus]

Even assuming what you say is true, that "minority" of non-bullshit healthcare is very important.

Chemotherapy is a crude and harmful way to eliminate cancer, but I know several people alive today because of it.

Without insulin injections, mortality of type one, childhood-onset diabetes would be dramatically higher.

Viagra.

Vaccines for numerous diseases are still incredibly effective and one of the most successful innovations of the 20th century.

And innovations continue. Fifteen years ago, a patient diagnosed with Macular Degeneration would be told eventual blindness was certain and the possibility of ever finding a cure was very low. Google macular degeneration stem cells to see how that has changed.

Yes, there's a lot of healthcare focused on controlling risk factors like high cholesterol and we don't really know how much that's helping, but I'm not sure I'd marginalize everything else by calling it an "elephant in the room."