[uoaei]

Earnings represented by GDP are not distributed evenly across a given population. That 17% of extra earnings goes to relatively few people in the States (I'm putting this very mildly, the concentration in reality is insanely lopsided).

[cucumber3732842]

The US healthcare industry is ~10% of the workforce. More if you include people affected by the supply distortions thereof (all those techbros working for agentic penis pump startups).

The fact that that pie is not sliced evenly does not change the fact that is an integer multiple larger than it ought to be.