The global slowdown in health care spending growth.

@article{Squires2014TheGS,
  title={The global slowdown in health care spending growth.},
  author={David A Squires},
  journal={JAMA},
  year={2014},
  volume={312 5},
  pages={
          485-6
        }
}
  • D. Squires
  • Published 6 August 2014
  • Economics, Medicine, Political Science
  • JAMA
Increasing health care spending has been part of the US economy for decades, consuming an everincreasing share of gross domestic product. However, in the past several years, the growth of US health spending has slowed to well below its historic norm.1 This slowdown in the rate of spending growth predates implementation of the Affordable Care Act. The causes of the slowdown in the growth of health care spending have been widely debated by researchers and policy makers. Does the slowdown reflect… 
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