Total cost of care—the starting point for health insurance premiums—depends on both fees and the amount of services consumed. There is wide variation in both.

Consumers are angry because the premiums for their health insurance are too high. Patients are angry because they pay too much out-of-pocket for health care when they use their insurance.

Are health care costs rising? Health care spending has spiraled upward for decades. Total national health spending has more than doubled since 2000, after inflation, from $2.2 trillion to $4.9 ...

Among low-income families, mean total health care spending was $3,163 in 2007 and $3247 in 2019. Among higher-income families, mean total health care spending increased from $4,071 in 2007 to ...

The law’s titular purpose is to make health care more affordable, and—if insurance enrollment signals affordability—it has been an unquestionable success.

Of the $4.5 trillion spent on U.S. health care in 2022, hospitals collected 30% of that total health spending, according to data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

Medicaid spending made up 18% of the total, with spending growing by 7.9% last year, a slower growth rate than that found in 2022 or 2021. Spending on hospital care grew by 10.4% in 2023, reaching ...

Then he cites another survey to make a separate statement about costs - “total health care cost for a family of four has increased by $12,000 a year.” Let’s examine each of these claims in turn.

Total spending on health care in Massachusetts raced past $70 billion, bounding from $67.8 billion in 2021 to $71.7 billion in 2022, the HPC said.