Over 50% of a doctor's time is not providing health care. It is filling out cya. So maybe I worded my post poorly. Most of the health care dollar does not go to health providers to provide health care... a large portion of the money the health care provider receives is to cover the time he spends filling out the paperwork for cya.
The NET income of the average doctor has not gone up as fast as that of poorly educated computer programmers like me, nor as fast as tort lawyers, nor as fast an most other professionals.
Nurses did have a period of steep increases which came after a long plateau and has not almost leveled off.
I've consulted to health insurers (on billion dollar HIPAA projects that was a total waste of time and money... but imposed on them by law) and have seen the numbers on where the money goes.
Anyone going to the ER with battery of test cost 10K to avg person but insurance companies settle for 4K. If you or I ask for the insurance discount they say it's not available to you only to insurance companies because they have a mutual deal. It's all collusion in my book.