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The Cost of Treating Patients is On the Rise: PwC Goes What’s Behind the 2024 Medical Spending Numbers

Health Populi

As the first line chart illustrates, the peak of medical trend in the last 18 years was in 2007 when the U.S. Here’s a link to PwC’s 2007 study looking behind the numbers, noting that the 11.9% Take prescription drugs pushing medical trend upward. saw double-digit cost growth of nearly 12%.

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Americans’ Top Sources of Stress are Money, Money, Money and Family

Health Populi

This latter point was emphasized in the survey noting that 71% of Americans said that drug prices were too high; 78% of people agreed that the government should be permitted to negotiate/regulate prescription drug prices. That was the theme that started the first Health Populi blog post in 2007.