2011 Health Care Cost and Utilization Report
After a Two-Year Slowdown, Health Care Spending Grew 4.6 Percent Per Capita in 2011.
Introducing HCCI
Health spending is the biggest financial issue facing the nation. Over the past decade, health care costs have risen over three times faster than wages, squeezing family budgets and imposing a burden on many employers. The growing costs of Medicare, Medicaid and other public health programs are major contributors to the long term fiscal challenge facing the federal and state governments and any serious study of the drivers of increasing health costs is hampered by lack of access to timely, detailed data.
With this challenge in mind, we are proud to establish the Health Care Cost Institute with an aim of becoming the nation’s leading source of information on U.S. health care costs.
