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WASHINGTON — Health spending stabilized as a share of the economy in 2010 after back-to-back years of historically low growth, the government reported Monday.
Experts debated whether it’s a fleeting consequence of the sluggish economy or a real sign that cost controls by private employers and government are starting to work.
U.S. health care spending grew by 3.9 percent in 2010, reaching $2.6 trillion, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
Still, the increases for 2010 and 2009 were the lowest measured in 51 years. And health care as a share of the economy leveled off at 17.9 percent, the first time in a decade there’s been no growth.
