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Health » Five Diseases Help Drive US Health Spending Rise
Aug 25, 2004

Reuters

A handful of conditions such as mental illness, stroke, diabetes and lung disease accounted for much of the huge increase in health-care spending dating back to the late 1980s, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.
The $200 billion increase in health-care spending from 1987 to 2000 was due partly to more sick people, but also to more expensive costs of care, Emory University economist Kenneth Thorpe and colleagues reported.

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