From NEWSMAX:
It sounds like good news: The recession slowed the growth of the nation’s health care bill to the lowest levels ever measured.
But a government report Wednesday said medical costs still gobbled up a record share of the overall economy, meaning the slowdown did not change the nation’s underlying problem with out-of-control health care spending.
Americans spent $2.5 trillion on health care in 2009, or $8,086 per person, said the new estimates by number crunchers at Medicare’s Office of the Actuary…
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