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25 cents of every dollar spent on health care in the United States is wasted. At a total estimated cost of $760 to $935 billion, it's more than the US spends on Medicare and Medicaid combined and could pay for insurance coverage for every American. Learn more in this video summary of a recent analysis in JAMA.

Topics discussed in this video:
0:00 25% of US health care spending is waste
00:25 What is health care waste?
00:58 The numbers
01:16 Categories of health care waste
02:09 Potential savings
02:46 Administrative complexity
03:29 Putting potential savings in perspective
03:53 The Paradox
04:42 Waste as revenue
05:21 Pushback to policy measures
06:00 Value-based payment
07:28 Implementing effective interventions

Some data reported in this video have been corrected. At 2:39 the correct estimated savings for failure of care delivery are $44.4 to 97.3 billion, and the total estimated savings are $191 to 286 billion. To watch the video with corrected data, go to https://ja.ma/2tMBXxB.

William H. Shrank, MD, MSHS, is the author of Waste in the US Health Care System: Estimated Costs and Potential for Savings. Read that article here: https://ja.ma/2BjUe5v

Karen E. Joynt Maddox, MD, MPH, is the author of Toward Evidence-Based Policy Making to Reduce Wasteful Health Care Spending. Read her editorial: https://ja.ma/2oNNp9E

Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, is the author of Elusive Waste: The Fermi Paradox in US Health Care. Read his editorial: https://ja.ma/32mDbvs

Howard Bauchner, MD, is the author of Waste in the US Health Care System. Read his editorial: https://ja.ma/31lH3f1