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Maggie Maher, Health Beat, June 13, 2008

We know that as a nation, we invest well over $2 trillion each year in healthcare. But where exactly do our health care dollars go?  Where are they well-spent and where are they wasted?

In recent months I’ve been trying to answer those questions by looking at healthcare spending sector by sector, analyzing how much we spend on physicians’ services (here  and here);  on hospitals (here and here) ; and what share our health care dollars is eaten up by insurers’ “administrative costs and overhead.”



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