Two reports on American "health" care costs and results (Portside)

[Glia]

As the lemmings race headlong toward the cliff...

(1)
Best Care at Lower Cost:
The Path to Continuously Learning Health Care in America
Mark Smith, Robert Saunders, Leigh Stuckhardt,
J. Michael McGinnis
Editors; Committee on the Learning Health Care
System in America
Institute of Medicine
September 2012
https://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13444#toc

Description
America's health care system has become too complex and
costly to continue business as usual. Best Care at Lower
Cost explains that inefficiencies, an overwhelming
amount of data, and other economic and quality barriers
hinder progress in improving health and threaten the
nation's economic stability and global competitiveness.
According to this report, the knowledge and tools exist
to put the health system on the right course to achieve
continuous improvement and better quality care at a
lower cost. ...
[read the rest at the site referenced above]


(2)
Healthcare System Wasted $750 Billion in 2009, IOM Says
Robert Lowes
Medscape Today
September 6, 2012
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/770451

An inefficient, extraordinarily complex, and slow-to-
change US healthcare system wasted more than $750
billion in 2009, according to a new study from the
Institute of Medicine (IOM) that calls for a drastic
overhaul.

Excessive administrative costs on the part of insurers
explain some of those squandered dollars, but
unnecessary and inefficiently delivered services on the
part of physicians, hospitals, and other providers
account for the lion's share of the $750 billion, said
the report, which was released online today. ...
[read the rest at the site referenced above]