Warning, this post may make you want to vomit.
The United States is considered the wealthiest country in history of the world. Today, right now. Almost 20% of the GDP is spent on healthcare.
That means almost 1 out of every 5 dollars in the wealthiest country ever is spent on healthcare.
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I know it sounds like a lot, and I’m sure if I looked I could find the exact dollar amount in trillions per year. All that is well and fine, but sometimes those large numbers are hard to really grasp.
A lot of this wealth is in hospital systems, health insurance companies, and pharma. It is in balance sheets and exists mostly electronically. You can’t really see it. They have shareholders and stock prices and all other sorts of intangibles.
But there is one tangible display of this enormous wealth. One that you can really touch and feel.
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You just have to go to Verona, Wisconsin and check out the EPIC medical campus. EPIC is a medical EMR provider whose systems hold the records of about 78% of the US. Many hospitals use EPIC. It is a privately held company whose CEO is worth about $7.3 billion.
The EPIC campus is an amalgamation of themed buildings: Harry Potter, Jungle Safari, Alice in Wonderland etc.
It is a decadent display of healthcare wealth, and gives you a sense of how much money is really in the system.
All of this wealth is made from the good little physician cogs that keep the system running.
