Report: U.S. health care system wastes $750 billion a year

Friday, September 7, 2012

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. health care system squanders $750 billion a year -- roughly 30 cents of every medical dollar -- through unneeded care, byzantine paperwork, fraud and other waste, the influential Institute of Medicine said Thursday in a report that ties directly into the presidential campaign.

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