US health care 'wastes $US750b a year'

Brisbane : Australia | Sep 06, 2012 at 7:24 AM PDT

Source: The Courier-Mail

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A new report says the U.S. health care system squanders $750 billion ($732 billion) a year - roughly US30 cents of every medical dollar. That's through unneeded care, byzantine paperwork, fraud, fragmentation and other wasteful practices. The report was released Thursday by the influential Institute... FULL ARTICLE AT The Courier-Mail

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