Growth in National Health Expenditures Slows to 2013, Pre-ACA Levels

​According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS, Americans spent $3.5 trillion on healthcare in 2017, representing approximately $10,739 per person. From one year before, spending grew at a 3.9% rate, the slowest since 2013 and a decline from 4.8% and 5.8% in 2016 and 2015 respectively. As a percent of gross domestic product (GDP), the CMS says healthcare spending stayed flat from 2016 to 2017 at 17.9% of GDP, the first time since 2013.

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