As it has every year in recent memory, national health care spending climbed last year, hitting $3.4 trillion.
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The good news, according to report published in the Office of the Actuary of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in Health Affairs, is the increase was smaller than America has come to expect over the past two decades: 4.8 percent.
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