Health Care Spending Rate Slows To Record Low – CMS
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
The sluggish economy in 2009 slowed the growth of U.S. health care spending that year to 4%, the lowest growth rate seen in the 50 years during which the data has been tracked, according to a Jan. 5 report from the CMS Office of the Actuary.
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