A PriceWaterhouseCoopers report, The price of excess: Identifying waste in healthcare spending is quite an amazing read. It says the United States wastes $1.2 trillion a year. Jesus, we could bail out Goldman Sachs with that amount of money!

While we see blame the person, in things like "hey you're fat" to "you did not follow my orders and that's why you're sick"! sort of stuff...

The report also outlines some real statistics in terms of inefficiencies.

Our research found that wasteful spending in the health system has been calculated at up to $1.2 trillion of the $2.2 trillion spent in the United States, more than half of all health spending.