NEJM Journal Watch Podcasts: Clinical Conversations

Podcast 237: U.S. health spending — where is the outrage?

10.11.2019 - By NEJM GroupPlay

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Running time: 18 minutes JAMA has just published an analysis of the latest findings regarding waste in the nation’s $3.5 trillion annual health “co-pay.” And with 25% of that — some eight hundred billion dollars — characterized as wasted, you’d think there would be stacks of competing cost-saving proposals to consider, especially regarding administrative costs. There aren’t. […]

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