Tag: healthcare spending

July 24, 2023

Projections of National Health Expenditures (NHE) and health insurance enrollment have been released for the years 2022-2031. The report contains expected impacts from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), including that people with Medicare prescription drug coverage (Part D) are projected […]

December 14, 2022

Spending on medical products and services continued to tick up in 2021, reaching $12,914 per person that year, even as the share of the economy devoted to healthcare expenditures shrunk slightly, according to the analysis from the CMS Office of […]

March 9, 2020

In 1970, healthcare spending represented 6.9% of U.S. GDP. Last year, findings from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services showed healthcare spending in the U.S. was expected to reach $3.8 trillion, representing 17.8% of GDP. It’s a sobering figure, and […]

February 7, 2020

It has always been financially rewarding for doctors to take care of rich patients. People with more money…well, they have more money to spend on healthcare. But shouldn’t this more money/higher payment relationship go away in Medicare? It doesn’t, and […]

January 15, 2020

As Democratic presidential candidates debate the state of U.S. healthcare, a common theme is the high cost of the system. Senator Bernie Sanders (I – Vermont), in particular, has made the claim that the U.S. spends twice as much on […]

August 8, 2019

During the recent Democratic debates, Senator Bernie Sanders once again lambasted the state of America’s healthcare system, drawing damning comparisons with other countries, particularly Canada. The Vermont senator has also consistently criticized the “incredible corruption and greed” of the U.S. […]

December 12, 2018

Is there any financial decision that we dread more than the annual chore of choosing a health insurance plan? It’s got everything we hate: choice and information overload, time pressure, ambiguity and confusion, consequences worth thousands, uncomfortable scenarios involving disease […]

December 4, 2017

Whichever side you are on in the battle to repeal and replace Obamacare, recognize that the fight is not about fixing healthcare. It is over who pays for it. Neither Obamacare nor any of the recent Trumpcare alternatives will materially […]

June 9, 2017

Healthcare hiring, pricing and spending are all falling, providing relief to and partially being driven by consumers, according to analysis released Thursday by think-tank Altarum Institute.Though still the biggest contributor to national jobs growth, healthcare hiring is about two-thirds of […]

January 11, 2017

As a potential repeal of the Affordable Care Act looms with no clear replacement, many experts are already painting a dire portrait of what that may mean for Americans: One million lost jobs, longer workdays, and delayed retirement. Job losses […]

December 28, 2016

Just 20 conditions make up more than half of all spending on health care in the United States, according to a new comprehensive financial analysis that examines spending by diseases and injuries. The most expensive condition, diabetes, totaled $101 billion […]

October 4, 2016

Massachusetts continues to struggle with its attempts to keep increases in healthcare spending in check. A new report from the Massachusetts Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA) found that total healthcare expenditures statewide were $57.2 billion in 2015, or […]

September 2, 2016

About 71% of healthcare spending in California this year will be covered by taxpayers, according to a new report (PDF). The study, published by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, found that of the $367 billion to be spent […]