Why a Third of American Health Care Costs Are Considered Unnecessary - The Fiscal Times

The Fiscal TimesWhy a Third of American Health Care Costs Are Considered UnnecessaryThe Fiscal TimesIn a 2012 Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) paper, Donald Berwick and Andrew Hackbarth estimated that health care waste, which includes unnecessary treatments, overpriced drugs and procedures and the under-use of preventive care ...