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Health-care spending 17.3% of GDP (Chicago Sun-Times)

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Spending on health care consumed about 17 cents of every dollar spent last year in the United States, the largest one-year increase since the federal government started tracking the number in 1960.By 2019, health spending will amount to 19.3 percent of the nation's total economic output, according to a report from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services . The report is the latest ...