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We have discussed the level of NHE in the United States and looked to some degree at how much money is beine spent for carc by various service categories such as hospltals and plysicians.

Click hore to view and study the NHE data for selected calendar vears between $1970$ and $2003$ and for selected service caterories $($with the exception of the catch$-$all category of "other"$]($Centers for Modicare & Medicaid Services $[$CMS$],$ n$.$d$).$ Answer the followinis questions:

Examine the trends in expenditures for the service categories presented to the table. Whar is the magnitude and direction of xoenting changes within shd across each of these categories the percentage of GDP speat on NHE and the NHE percapira.

What can you say about how the price of mefical care services changes? As you think about what you might say, fcalize that the fieurea hawe been adjusted for inflation, Also, assume that not all increases in healthcare costs aep cauned by increaser in utiluation. used by the US public? What factors might contribute to these trends?

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