U.S. Health Care Spending: The Big Picture
Download the Brief | Request hard copies | Subscribe to NIHCM mailingsMay 2012
This data brief pulls together the most current data available from multiple sources to provide an overview of national health spending. The brief covers:
- trends in health spending growth and the problem of excess growth,
- the sectors driving increased spending,
- the growth in public versus private spending, and
- changes in consumer out-of-pocket spending.
This is the first in a series of data briefs on U.S. health care spending.
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