Wasted premium dollars.....1.4 million a day on lobbying

While when you hear 1.4 million dollars per day it sound like a lot, let's keep this in perspective.

1.4 million per day added up over the course of the year does not even account for a tenth of a percent of health care spending. It accounts for 1/4400th of spending. If we used an extra IV line on our patients a day that would account for much more health care spending.

Even if we completely eliminated this, there would be essentially no difference. So while you may see 1.4 million and think that this is a good target to limit spending it is nothing more than inflammatory statistic to get people fired up that would realistically have little to no impact on US health care were it eliminated.