Don Berwick on Healthcare Waste

posted by admin at 1:06 pm

From the New York Times,

” 20 percent to 30 percent of health spending is “waste” that yields no benefit to patients…”
“The official, Dr. Donald M. Berwick, listed five reasons for what he described as the “extremely high level of waste.” They are overtreatment of patients, the failure to coordinate care, the administrative complexity of the health care system, burdensome rules and fraud.”

There’s other great stuff in there as well.  Here’s the link.