Medical waste: http://iom.edu/Reports/2012/Best-Care-at-Lower-Cost-The-Path...

30 cents of every dollar spent on medical care is wasted. There were roughly $2.7 dollars of spending on medical care in 2011.

The cost of insuring 100% of Americans would be 34 - 69 billion: http://www.amsa.org/AMSA/Libraries/Committee_Docs/CaseForUHC...

Here's a study from the New England Health Institute: http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/pdf/healthrepo...