This week promises another spate of droll economic news. (Although don't tell that to the traders on Wall Street, who've helped pushed the Dow and S&P up roughly 20 percent since their November lows.)
On Monday, the feds reported that health care spending continued to gobble up a greater chunk of the economy last year, jumping 6.1 percent to $2.2 trillion.
Now while we'll hear much moaning and gnashing of teeth over this so-called atrocity, it's worth pointing out that the increase was the smallest we've seen in more than 10 years. And that's due in large part to consumers stepping up and insisting on generic drug use, among other things. Generics made up 67 percent of meds prescribed last year, up from 63 percent.
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