Matthew Rae (@mattrae.bsky.social)

Double-digit growth in private health insurance spending in 2023. "The acceleration in overall health spending growth in 2023 was driven mostly by private health insurance spending, which increased 11.5 percent in 2023 compared with ... 6.8 percent in 2022" www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10....

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National Health Expenditures In 2023: Faster Growth As Insurance Coverage And Utilization Increased | Health Affairs Journal Health care spending in the US reached $4.9 trillion and increased 7.5 percent in 2023, growing from a rate of 4.6 percent in 2022. In 2023, the insured share of the population reached 92.5 percent, as enrollment in private health insurance increased at a strong rate for the second year in a row, and both private health insurance and Medicare spending grew faster than in 2022. For Medicaid, spending and enrollment growth slowed as the COVID-19 public health emergency ended. The health sector’s share of the economy in 2023 was 17.6 percent, which was similar to its share of 17.4 percent in 2022 but lower than in 2020 and 2021, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. State and local governments accounted for a higher share of spending in 2023 than in 2022, while the federal government share was lower as COVID-19-related funding declined and federal Medicaid spending growth slowed. https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2024.01375