It's Time For A Chronic Health Care Bailout

Kaiser Health News
September 24, 2009

Covering more Americans who are uninsured without payment reform will be a wasteful pursuit both in fiscal and clinical terms. Fiscally, about 30 percent of health spending is clinically wasteful taking the forms of overuse, underuse, misuse and medical errors. The New England Healthcare Institute, a nonprofit that focuses on issues like quality improvement and cost containment, estimates that $800 billion in care is wasted each year.  According to NEHI, that money could be cut out of health spending and at the same time would improve quality for those who receive care.  

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