“The United States wastes more money each year providing health care than it does paying for the entire Department of Defense budget, according to a new study.

Thirty cents of every dollar spent on medical services is squandered, says a group of researchers from the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. That translates into $750 billion annually being flushed on unnecessary care, bureaucratic delays, fraud and other waste, based on calculations for 2009.”

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