Health spending trends may damage US economy

“Health spending appears to be on a path somewhere between gross domestic product (GDP) growth plus zero percent and GDP plus 1 percent, depending upon various factors including the timing and severity of future recessions,” wrote Charles Roehrig, founding director of the Altarum Institute for Sustainable Health Spending, and author of the study. But according to Roehrig, even at that fairly modest rate, such a growth curve may itself not be sustainable.
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