I've been casting about for ways of reframing our language relating to the health care system, and come up with "Disease Industrial Complex." If we look at things from this perspective, the DIC is a very efficient process, efficiently absorbing an ever increasing percentage of our gross national product. This industry has little to do with health - its all about disease, how to categorize it, and how to sell things to fix it. This is an example of a more general model of "Problem Industrial Complexes" - industries that have sprung up with a vision of fixing a problem, but have a growth metric based on the problem getting worse. In international development, we have the "Poverty Industrial Complex" (See Thomas Dichter's Despite Good Intentions: Why Development Assistance to the Third World Has Failed