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Four Maine warehouses packed with perfectly good supplies that hospitals throw away

By Bangor Daily News / ProPublica  
   March 15, 2017

Just outside Portland, there's a 15,000-square-foot warehouse that's packed with reasons the U.S. health care system costs so much: Shelves rise floor to ceiling, stacked with tubs overflowing with unopened packages of syringes, diabetes supplies and shiny surgical instruments that run hundreds of dollars apiece. This, however, isn't a story of about the crippling price of medical supplies. This is about the high cost of medical supplies that hospitals throw away.

 

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