Federal health programs will cost over $26 trillion through 2036, under the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) baseline, making health care the largest category of federal spending. In this piece, we ...

National health spending is expected to grow at an average annual rate of 5.8 percent over the next decade so that by 2025, healthcare will comprise more than a fifth of the economy, according to new ...

National health spending is expected to grow at an average annual rate of 5.6 percent from 2016 through 2025, with expenditures projected to hit $5.5 trillion in 2025, according to new estimates from ...

National health spending is estimated to have outpaced the rest of the country’s economy in 2023, growing by 7.5% with projected expenditures of $4.8 trillion, according to newly published ...