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Inflation Spurs Health Spending In 2000

Health spending totaled $1.3 trillion in 2000, with spending averaging $4,637 per person (Exhibit 1). Nominal health care expenditures increased 6.9 percent in 2000, the third year of accelerating growth (Exhibit 2). The 1.2-percentage-point gain in the rate of spending growth in 2000 primarily reflects an increase in economywide inflation and a gain of only 0.3 percentage points in real spending.¹

Systemic Changes In The Public Sector

 
SCHIP.Medicaid.Legislative changes.Effects on nursing homes.Effects on home health.Effects on hospitals.Other changes.

Private-Sector Spending

 
Private health insurance.Managed care backlash.Out-of-pocket spending.

Specific Health Services

 
Drugs: key driver of cost trends.Factors driving growth.Managing the drug benefit.Hospitals.

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