Always one of Health Affairs’ most-read articles, this year’s report estimates that in 2021 health care spending in the United States increased 2.7 percent to $4.3 trillion, or $12,914 per person -- a marked decline from the 10.3 percent growth in 2020.
On Tuesday, January 10, at 1:00 p.m., you are invited to join Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil, David M. Cutler, the Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics at Harvard University, and M. Kate Bundorf, the J. Alexander McMahon Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy at Duke University, for a discussion of the report and the conditions that led to this drastic decline, including decreased federal government expenditures since the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The article will appear in the
January 2023 issue of the journal.
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