Health Care Is the Largest Industry in the US - 18% of GDP, the most employees
Health Care Is the Largest Industry in the US by Total Spending and Employment
- "America spent $5.3 trillion on health care in 2024"
- "Per-capita spending reached $15,474 and has increased every year since 2000,
rising 77% faster than inflation over that period" - "health care spending exceeds spending on housing, groceries, national defense, and vehicles. "
Related in Vitamin D Life
- 10 reasons why US medical care costs so much
- Drug and Medical Device Companies Paid U.S. Physicians 12 Billion Dollars Over Last 10 Years
- Sick people are more profitable than healthy ones
- Curing patients is not a sustainable business model – Goldman Sachs
Big Pharma
- Why Big Pharma is ‘TERRIFIED’ of Vitamin D - Dr. Korry
- NIH employees got 1.4 billion dollars in big-pharma royalties in 12 years
- 1 Billion dollars paid by Drug and Medical Device companies to Peer Reviewers of Medical Journals.
Vitamin D
- Vitamin D has been found to be cost-effective by many studies
- The top 10 medical expenses can all be decreased by vitamin D
- Top 10 chronic health problems of children, women, pregnancies, seniors, and darker skins are fought by Vitamin D
- Vitamin D for all senior Germans would cost-effectively prevent 30,000 cancer deaths annually
- Giving free vitamin D to every Iranian would pay for itself by just reducing CVD
- Perhaps 4,000 dollars annual less health care costs if supplement with 5 dollars of Vitamin D
- More hospitals or more Vitamin D – your choice
- Health Care Costs in US are increasing - infographics and Vitamin D
- A drug that could reduce all these health problems is worth a Trillion dollars - video Holick
- 5,000 IU of Vitamin D daily resulted in far fewer hospitalizations - RCT
similar to a 50,000 IU capsule once every 2 weeks
Health care industry may be the biggest enemy to the increased use of Vitamin D
20 million employees in health care organizations (April 2026)
Far more than:
- US military 2.81 million
- Walmart 2.1 million