Wasted Health Care and What We Can Do Innovation should produce
efficiencies and cut waste.  Prescription arthritis medication
Humira Marc Siegel  America’s health-care system is laden with
waste — $750 billion of it each year, according to a shocking
new report from the Institute of Medicine. The key reason found
was complexity; health-care systems are too complicated these
days for providers to fully integrate new technologies and
treatments meant to help patients without increasing costs. At
the same time, complex chronic diseases are on the rise, putting
even more pressure on doctors and nurses to handle many aspects
of a patient’s health care at the same time.  These are
pressures we can’t possibly handle.  Waste is inevitable because
of poor teamwork, inflated pricing, thick-as-a-steak
bureaucracy, and excessive duplication. Further, fear of
malpractice lawsuits compels doctors to overreact and overtreat
when confronted with very sick patients. Many doctors are also
not great communicators, and are crea