U.S. healthcare spending reached $3.5 trillion in 2017, or $10,739 per person, according to an annual report released Thursday by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Healthcare spending growth was 3.9 percent for the year, below the 4.8 percent rate in 2016 and near the slow rates seen in the years just after the financial crisis.
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