Here’s the top level overview. After accounting for inflation, health care expenditures increased by $933.5 billion between 1996 and 2013. To put that into perspective, that's enough money to create 9 additional interstate highway systems. We could fully fund 3 NASAs every year.

Or we could provide 400 malaria nets to every man, woman, and child in Africa. We could even do something crazy like pay down the debt.

But to save money in the future, we have to know why we keep spending more. Here's the breakdown.