{"id":31933,"date":"2012-09-09T08:52:21","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T12:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=31933"},"modified":"2012-09-09T08:56:42","modified_gmt":"2012-09-09T12:56:42","slug":"31933","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31933","title":{"rendered":"Healthcare waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veritas Omnia Vincit ends us <a href=\"http:\/\/chippewa.com\/news\/national\/report-u-s-health-care-system-wastes-billion-a-year\/article_d9054c98-f8ec-11e1-a0e4-0019bb2963f4.html?comment_form=true\">a link to a report<\/a> that charges the health care system waste of $750 billion every year; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>More than 18 months in the making, the report identified six major areas of waste: unnecessary services ($210 billion annually); inefficient delivery of care ($130 billion); excess administrative costs ($190 billion); inflated prices ($105 billion); prevention failures ($55 billion), and fraud ($75 billion). Adjusting for some overlap among the categories, the panel settled on an estimate of $750 billion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, while the Defense Department certainly wastes a lot of money, they at least provide the service they promise (dead bad guys).  The Defense Department is facing $1.2T in cuts over the next 10 years, while the healthcare system wastes almost that much in a year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veritas Omnia Vincit ends us a link to a report that charges the health care system &hellip; <a title=\"Healthcare waste\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31933\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Healthcare waste<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-debate","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}