The Physics of Health Care: Viewing the U.S. Health‐Care “System” from the Perspective of Quantum Mechanics

Leading explanations for high per capita and total health‐care spending in the United States tend to point to high health‐care prices as the primary culprit, which are a major contributor. Yet prices and spending do not exist in siloed vacuums. They are inherently part of, and deeply intertwined with, patient and clinician interactions, administrative norms and requirements, organizational structures, and socio‐cultural systems of medicine....