Health Care Reform

Medicare Spent $473 Billion Less from 2009 through 2014 Compared to Previous Spending Trends

Affordable Care Act continues to deliver better care, smarter spending and healthier people

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 22, 2016.  The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced today that Medicare spent $473.1 billion less on personal health care expenditures between 2009 and 2014 than would have been spent if the 2000-2008 average growth rate had continued through 2014.  In addition, if trends continue through 2015, that amount could grow to a projected $648.6 billion.  To put…

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