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Article: Health Care Rose 6.9 Percent in 2000
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- January 8, 2002
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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."