The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released new data on Dec. 16 on health expenditures. In 2019, overall spending rose 4.6% to reach a total of $3.8 trillion, or 17.7% of the economy.

That’s enough to make anyone do a double take. But a deeper look at the data actually shows we’re getting a lot of value out of all that spending.

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