Doctors Speak Out on Health Care Waste in U.S.
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The basic assumption in U.S. health care that more is better is being challenged by a group of doctors who put the cost of unnecessary care at as much as $800 billion a year, according to a new report.
The report, which was published Oct. 2 in the BMJ, estimated that overly aggressive treatment causes 30,000 deaths among Medicare recipients in the United States each year and that unnecessary...
