Officials work to raise public's medical IQ

In Rock County, nearly $152 million in unneeded health care expense can be attributed every year to low health literacy, according to a 2009 study by Dr. John A. Vernon, a professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In Walworth County, those unneeded costs total nearly $99 million. The wasted cost for Wisconsin is $3.3 billion to $7.6 billion, according to Vernon’s study. (JANESVILLE GAZETTE, 6/7)