Editor's Note
Overall US spending on healthcare grew 5.3%, and per-capita spending grew 4.5% in 2014, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid reports.
The share of gross domestic product allotted to healthcare spending was 17.5%, up from 17.3% in 2013.
The increase in spending was primarily driven by coverage expansion associated with the Affordable Care Act and rapidly rising prescription drug costs.
Spending on prescription drugs grew by 12.2% in 2014, compared with 2.4% in 2013.
1Anne B. Martin ([email protected]) is an economist in the Office of the Actuary, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), in Baltimore, Maryland. 2Micah Hartman is a statistician in the CMS Office of the Actuary. 3Joseph Benson is an economist in the CMS Office of the Actuary.
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