As people hear that health spending is beginning to grow more quickly again, many may recall reports they may have read recently about the shockingly high cost of some medical procedure, or how much a hospital CEO is being paid, or what they pay for their own prescription drugs. The prices Americans pay for health services are a big problem, but the culprit behind the renewed growth we are seeing in spending is not the rising price of health services. There is an excellent series of reports from the nonprofit Altarum Institute analyzing this. Altarum's Center for Sustainable Health Spending is a leading source of economic analysis on health spending and costs. [Subscription Required]
