What if you found out that your company is spending over twice as much as your competitors on a key element of your business, but the excess spending provides no differentiation, market-share gains or price premiums for your company? You’d likely appoint a team to unearth root causes of this wasteful spending. Welcome to the US Health Care system. We spend 16% of our Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on healthcare – seven percentage points of our GDP more than the average of all OECD nations and 5 percentage points more than the second highest spender in the OECD, France. (The 34 member countries in the OECD span the globe and include many of the world’s most advanced countries.) Yet we have nothing to show for our excess spending in terms of population health, as cited in Forbes. Today’s situation will only worsen absent…