Forbes August 12, 2025
Spoiler alert: You — not Congress — may be the most powerful cost‑containment tool in U.S. medicine. National health spending is projected to surge to $7 trillion this year and swallow more than 31% of the GDP within a decade. Yet as much as a 30% of that outlay is pure waste: redundant scans, fraud and abuse, avoidable ER marathons, labyrinthine billing systems, you name it. If a quarter of every health‑care dollar is currently passing through the paper shredder, maybe the fix isn’t one more policy tweak, but a new mindset for low-cost healthcare: Conscious Care Consumption. Think of it as financial mindfulness for your body.
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