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    Health care spending down, CMS says (access required)

    by Amy Gillentine

    Published: January 7,2010

    Time posted: 11:11 am

    Tags: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Gross Domestic Product, health care spending, hospitals, insurance premiums

    Nominal health spending in the United States grew 4.4 percent in 2008, to $2.3 trillion, or $7,861 a person, according to data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The number is the lowest since CMS started tracking expenditures during 1960. However, health care spending continues to outpace overall economic growth, which grew by ...





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