The Simple Habit That Can Deflate America’s $7 Trillion Health Tab

Spoiler alert: You — not Congress — may be the most powerful cost‑containment tool in U.S. medicine. National health spending is projected to surge to $7 trillion this year and swallow more than 31% of the GDP within a decade. Yet as much as a 30% of that outlay is pure waste: redundant scans, fraud and abuse, avoidable ER marathons, labyrinthine billing systems, you name it. If a quarter of…