Why Do We Pay For so Much Worthless Health Care?

The US could fund expensive advances in medicine like obesity drug Wegovy by eliminating low-value care, which costs around 30% of the annual $3 trillion health spend. This involves unnecessary services, such as unneeded opiates or antipsychotics, or late-life cancer-screening tests. A section of the Affordable Care Act allows the health secretary to stop covering services offering no benefit. Medicare could save $5 billion over a decade by doing this, according to one academic.