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Financial pollution: Wasteful health care spending that harms vulnerable populations – News-Medical.Net

Financial pollution arises when exorbitant or unnecessary healthcare spending depletes resources needed for the wellbeing of the population.

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Financial pollution arises when exorbitant or unnecessary healthcare spending depletes resources needed for the wellbeing of the population. This is the subject of a JAMA Health Forum Insight co-authored by researchers in the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute and Harvard Medical School. The Insight was published in the March 8, 2021 issue of JAMA Health Forum.
The authors lay out the rationale for “financial pollution” as a metaphor to express the urgency…

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