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Nation's health spending rises, but not so much
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Source: news.yahoo.com
January 06, 2009
WASHINGTON – Health care continued to take up a greater share of the economy in 2007, as spending on hospitals, doctors and other services increased 6.1 percent to $2.2 trillion. There was a silver lining in the numbers: The increase in health spending was the smallest since 1998, thanks largely to the growing use of generic drugs.
