title: Health spending projections through 2018: recession effects add uncertainty to the outlook.
abstract: During the projection period (2008-2018), average annual growth in national health spending is projected to be 6.2 percent-2.1 percentage points faster than average annual growth in gross domestic product (GDP). The health share of GDP is anticipated to rise rapidly from 16.2 percent in 2007 to 17.6 percent in 2009, largely as a result of the recession, and then climb to 20.3 percent by 2018. Public payers are expected to become the largest source of funding for health care in 2016 and are projected to pay for more than half of all national health spending in 2018.
authors.affiliation: Office of the Actuary, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. DNHS@cms.hhs.gov
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sisko
authors.forename: Christopher
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Truffer
authors.forename: Sheila
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: Sean
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Keehan
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cylus
authors.forename: John A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Poisal
authors.forename: M Kent
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Clemens
authors.forename: Joseph
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lizonitz
mesh_terms: D057172:Economic Recession / Q000706:statistics & numerical data* / Q000639:trends; D005544:Forecasting; D005102:Health Expenditures / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends*; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D006278:Medicare / Q000191:economics / Q000639:trends*; D017150:Public Sector; D035501:Uncertainty; D014481:United States