[dec0dedab0de]

In the breakdown it's usually the anesthesia that costs the most. I think a big chunk of that goes to malpractice insurance.

[ben_w]

Malpractice insurance? One insurance premium is high in order to pay for the cost of another insurance premium?

This seems… suboptimal.

I'm in Germany, I don't know what we spend money on here because I'm still integrating myself and have not mastered the German language to the level of having opinions about the Krankenversicherungsbeitragsentlastungsgesetz, but I do know we spend about 2/3rds per capita as the USA for better outcomes:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-vs-health...

[dec0dedab0de]

Malpractice insurance? One insurance premium is high in order to pay for the cost of another insurance premium? This seems… suboptimal.

Absolutely, the only way it makes sense is if you think of insurance as organized crime.