Health Cost Rise Outpaces Inflation

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Health care costs rose another 8 percent last year, signaling a near end of a two-year slowdown of spiraling health care costs, according to a study released today.

The increase once again was higher than the rate of inflation, surpassing it by 2.6 percentage points, according to the study by the Center for Studying Health System Change, a Washington health- policy research group that promotes health care reform.

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Health Cost Rise Outpaces Inflation

The rise in health care costs was virtually unchanged from 2003, said the study, which was published in the online version of Hea...

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