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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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The Health Consumer in 2024 – The Health Populi TrendCast

Jane Sarashon

Dr. Robert Pearl has recently written about this, and the phenomenon has been a major recurring theme in this Health Populi blog since its inception in 2007 – when I launched this site in the midst of The Great Recession. At this moment, the price of gas at the pump was playing a big role in U.S.