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      "title": "Health Care Spending: Past Trends and Projections",
      "summary": "This report focuses on trends in personal health care spending, which includes spending on\nhealth\ncare goods and services provided to individuals and excludes expenditures for administrative costs,\nresearch, and public health activities. Personal health care expenditures have grown considerably\nover the past 40 years. Between 1960 and 2003 (the most recent year available), personal health care\nspending increased from $23.4 billion to $1.4 trillion. It is estimated that personal health spending\nwill exceed $3.1 trillion in 2014.\n Data on health expenditures suggest four important trends. First, during the 1990s, health\nspending has grown at lower rates than in the past. However, from 2000 to 2003 health spending\ngrew at higher rates than the previous decade. Second, health care spending as a percent of gross\ndomestic product (GDP) was relatively constant between 1992 and 2000. Health spending as a\npercent of GDP increased in 2001, 2002 and 2003, indicating that health expenditures are growing\nfaster than the overall economy. Third, four types of health services consistently compose the bulk\nof health care expenditures: hospital care, physician and clinical services, nursing home and home\nhealth care, and prescription drugs. Spending on prescription drugs has grown since 1980 and is\nprojected to continue growing during the next decade. Fourth, over the past 40 years, the primary\nfinancing of health care has shifted from out-of-pocket payments to payments by private insurance\nand the federal government.",
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      "summary": "This report focuses on trends in personal health care spending, which includes spending on health care goods and services provided to individuals and excludes expenditures for administrative costs, research, and public health activities. Personal health care expenditures have grown considerably over the past 40 years. It is estimated that personal health spending will exceed $2.9 trillion in 2013.",
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