Health Spending Issues to Watch This Year
Last Updated April 10, 2025
A new brief from the Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker, co-authored by the Center’s Mairin Mancino, Julia Harris, and Sarah Berk, examines market trends contributing to rising healthcare costs and outlines federal and state-level health spending issues to watch throughout 2025.
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