Why is it so hard to reduce unnecessary medical spending?

Unnecessary medical care costs the government, insurers, and patients hundreds of millions of dollars each year, but efforts to reduce these low-value services have made little progress over the last 10 years, Markian Hawryluk writes for KFF Health News.

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The high cost of unnecessary medical care

In Colorado, a new analysis from the Center for Improving Value in Health Care found that the state government, insurers, and patients spent $134 million on “low-value care” — care that provides little to no benefit to patients. Some of the low-value items contributing to this cost...