That staggering number, as high as $800 billion a year, is the finding of a new study by Thomson Reuters. Too much paperwork costs 6 percent, but the biggest?
Overuse of antibiotics and lab tests. The antibiotic overuse, of course, has given us things like MSRA, on the health side, and it and the lab tests, etc., are as much as 37 percent of the wastage.
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October 26, 2009
One-third of U.S. healthcare costs wasted
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