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    Health care cost trend will spike up another percentage point to 7.0% in 2024, according to the annual report from the PwC Health Research Institute, Medical cost trend: Behind the numbers 2024.                 Every year, the PwC HRI team goes behind those numbers to assess cost inflators and deflators which underpin annual medical inflation. As the first line chart illustrates, the peak of…

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    • Medical costs will grow 7% in 2024 @PwCUS HRI expects https://t.co/96TM0frlXu #Healthcosts inflators= workforce #inflation (think #burnout) & #pharmaceuticals costs Deflators=#biosimilas & #homecare #telehealth See @Goodroot on #Humira #biosimilars #healthconsumers #hccosts https://t.co/B7ZQoBkcEf

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    An eleventh-hour deal saved the U.S. from defaulting on its debts in 2011. The brakes aren’t as reliable this time.

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    • “even the slightest doubt that the U.S. government will pay its bills, they will begin to hedge their bets in ways that push up interest rates and the federal deficit…. That kind of #inflation takes decades, not months or years, to bring down.” https://t.co/hj0Y3mmFYB

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    In the U.S. in 2021, per person health care spending increased by nearly 15%, reversing 2020’s spending decline of 3.5% in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The latest Health Care Cost and Utilization Report from the Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI) details health spending in 2021, dissecting the change in terms of utilization of services and prices by category. That’s a big rise over…

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    • Via @HealthCostInst 2021 #healthcare spending up w utilization & prices as >patients return to #hospitals & doctors Begs Q how #inflation will impact healthcare & #healthconsumers? https://t.co/b6UDAARRJO @OECD on #health care inflation & #healthcosts ->resilience & >taxes? https://t.co/Uguqyy7c24