The Wrong Conversation About Health Care Waste.

Reframing discussion of US health care waste toward patient-centered priorities, rather than global cost reduction, is the core aim of this Viewpoint.

• Why it matters: Current conversations emphasize spending reduction, potentially missing how waste affects patients and care quality in the US.
• What they did: The Viewpoint argues for a shift in framing, redirecting attention from expenditures to patient-centered outcomes.
• The result: This enables more patient-focused dialogue about US health care waste and how it should be addressed.

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