As Medical Cost Trend Remains Flat, Patients Face Growing Health Consumer Financial Stress
Health Populi
JUNE 13, 2018
. “Employer health spending has grown from 6 percent of total wages in 1988 to more than 12 percent in 2018,” driven by healthcare prices growing faster than the general economy, and the adoption of new technologies, procedures, and increasingly expensive new prescription drugs, PwC observes. economy by 2026.
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