Health Care Spending $2.5 Trillion in 2009; Health Reform to Slow Growth Gradually

OPEN MINDS Weekly News Wire Strategic Health Care News In 2009, total health spending is projected to have increased by 5.8%, to reach $2.5 trillion, according to actuaries with the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). For 2010, CMS projected that health care spending will increase by 5.1%, about 1.2 percentage points faster than previously estimated; however, CMS also predicts that spending will slow to 4.2% in 2011, which is about one percentage point slower than previously projected. The new estimates of spending growth for 2010 and 2011 are mainly associated with the . . .