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Michael Hiltzik: There's enormous waste in US healthcare, so why isn't anyone doing anything about it?

As Mark Twain reputedly said about the weather, everybody talks about waste in the U.S. healthcare system, but nobody does anything about it.

A new study puts numbers on the scale of that waste and nails down its sources. But it leaves open the question of what to do about it. That's especially true of the largest single source identified by the authors: "administrative complexity," which accounts for as much as $265.6 billion in waste a year, or as much

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