(Editor's note: This blog has been republished here with permission from Zane Benefits. This is part three of an ongoing series. You can check out part one here and you can read the original, in its entirety, here.)

When you drive to work today look around at the people, cars, and buildings you pass by. Between one-sixth and one-fifth of the people you pass on their way to work, representing 17.5 percent of our gross domestic product, work producing a product or service nobody really wants to buy—health care, or more accurately sickness care, since what most Americans call healthcare has very little to do with health.

Despite the fact that the United States spends two-and-a-half to three times per person what other developed nations spend on healthcare, the United States is the unhealthiest developed nation on earth. There are many reasons proposed for why this is so.