Article: Health Care Rose 6.9 Percent in 2000

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WASHINGTON (AP) _ The cost of the nation's health care rose 6.9 percent to $1.3 trillion in 2000 as Americans spent more on prescription drugs and hospital care, the government says.

Health care spending averaged $4,637 per person, up from $4,377 in 1999, the government said in a report marking what its economists called the "end of an era of reasonable health care cost growth throughout most of the 1990s."

"Given what we know, we expect health care costs will continue to grow ... in 2001," economist and author of the report Katharine Levit predicted.

The report, released Tuesday by the Health and Human Services Department' s Centers for Medicare ...

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