Rising Prices and Health Care “Empires”

The rate of growth of health care expenditures in the United States in 2018 vs 2017 was actually below the annual rate of growth of the US economy as a whole, according to the Centers for Medicare& Medicaid Services (CMS) Office of the Actuary. However, this is more of a reflection of the high annual rate of growth in the US economy in 2018 than a slowing in health care expenditures, which grew at an annual rate of growth of 4.6%.
Source: JAMA - Category: General Medicine Source Type: research