The High Price of Hospital Care
Health care costs ranked among voters’ top concerns in the 2018 midterm elections.1 The federal government estimates that per capita health care expenditures reached $10,739 in 2017 and that costs will continue to grow more than 5.5 percent annually over the next decade.2 Slowing the increase in health care costs will be impossible without reforms to the largest component of health care expenditures: hospital-based care.
