A broad consensus holds that increased medical capability—technology—is the primary
driver of health spending growth. However, technology does not expand independently of …

This paper updates one we published in 2003, describing the implications of continued
health care spending growth for the consumption of nonhealth goods and services. Our …

Perceptions of whether health care cost growth is affordable contribute greatly to pressures
for health system reform. In this paper we develop a framework for thinking about …

In 2008, US health care spending growth slowed to 4.4 percent—the slowest rate of growth
over the past forty-eight years. The deceleration was broadly based for nearly all payers and …

Despite earlier forecasts to the contrary, US health care spending growth has slowed in the
past four years, continuing a trend that began in the early 2000s. In this article we attempt to …

This chapter provides a conceptual and empirical examination of health care spending
growth (as opposed to the level of health care spending). Given that an equilibrium …

The pace of health spending growth slowed in 2003 for the first time in seven years, driven
in part by a slowdown in public spending growth. US health care spending rose 7.7 percent …

$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 …

Concern about high and rising health care costs in the United States has increased sharply
in recent years (45). Indeed a popular topic of discussion in health policy circles is whether …

US health care spending climbed to 1.6trillionin2002,or 5,440 per person. Health spending
rose 8.5 percent in 2001 and 9.3 percent in 2002, contributing to a spike of 1.6 percentage …