Katy Talento joins the Johns Hopkins University Cost and Quality in Health Care Research Group, as co-author of a new report: The True Cost of Health Care: An Analysis of Americans’ Total Health Care Spend, showing how almost half of federal expenditures (low estimate!) are actually spent on health care. Are we getting our money’s worth, given that credible estimates put the amount of overtreatment, undertreatment, sub-par treatment, misdiagnosis and outright fraud at 31% on the low end (IOM) and 50% on the high end (PWC)? 

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