Drew Altman: COVID-19 Is Causing Health Spending To Go Down

COVID-19 Is Causing Health Spending To Go Down New analysis from Drew Altman in his latest Axios column on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on national health spending. He writes, “We have never seen a year in which health spending actually goes down. Now the seemingly impossible is happening, but the reason – COVID-19 – makes it both anomalous and more tragic than a cause for celebration.”   Read the “smart brevity” version in Axios and the full column on KFF.org.

 

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