A new report concludes what many have long suggested: Medicare is spending way too much on services that its beneficiaries don't need.
The report, authored by the Dartmouth Atlas Project, highlighted five areas in which the public health service for the elderly is probably doing more in way that not only wastes money, but may harm the health of those it seeks to help.
Far too many people are being screened for prostate and breast cancer, for instance. Increasingly, medical experts are saying that screenings for such cancers often do more harm than good, since they often result in false positives or they result in a harsh treatment that is more damaging than the cancer itself, which often develops slowly.
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