Health Care Costs Expected to Be 20 Percent of Spending by 2020
Gazette, The; Colorado Springs, Colo. › July 28, 2011
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U.S. health costs will account for 19.8 percent of the nation's spending by 2020, up from 17.6 percent in 2009, with the government paying a bigger portion of the bill, researchers said on Thursday.
Future spending will likely grow at a faster pace, fueling concerns over how to cut the country's deficit, now the subject of fierce debate among lawmakers ahead of a deadline for raising the government's borrowing limit.See the full content of this document
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Health Care Costs Expected to Be 20 Percent of Spending by 2020
The report, published online in the journal Health Affairs, looked at projected U.S.health spending through 2020. The rese...
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