Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Office of the Actuary, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Health Aff (Millwood). 2010 Jan-Feb;29(1):147-55. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2009.0839.
In 2008, U.S. health care spending growth slowed to 4.4 percent--the slowest rate of growth over the past forty-eight years. The deceleration was broadly based for nearly all payers and health care goods and services, as growth in both price and nonprice factors slowed amid the recession. Despite the slowdown, national health spending reached $2.3 trillion, or $7,681 per person, and the health care portion of gross domestic product (GDP) grew from 15.9 percent in 2007 to 16.2 percent in 2008. These developments reflect the general pattern that larger increases in the health spending share of GDP generally occur during or just after periods of economic recession. Despite the overall slowdown in national health spending growth, increases in this spending continue to outpace growth in the resources available to pay for it.
2008 年，美国医疗保健支出增长率放缓至 4.4％，为过去四十八年来的最低增长率。在经济衰退期间，价格和非价格因素的增长均放缓，几乎所有付款人和医疗保健商品和服务的减速都具有广泛的基础。尽管有所放缓，但国民医疗支出达到 2.3 万亿美元，或人均 7681 美元，医疗保健占国内生产总值（GDP）的比例从 2007 年的 15.9％增长到 2008 年的 16.2％。这些发展反映了一个普遍模式，即 GDP 中医疗保健支出份额的较大增长通常发生在经济衰退期间或之后不久。尽管国民医疗支出增长总体放缓，但这方面支出的增长继续超过用于支付医疗保健费用的资源的增长。
