4sight Health January 21, 2026
It’s hard to find some good news in the recent national health expenditure data released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). As you’re well aware by now, national health expenditures rose 7.2% in 2024 to nearly $5.3 trillion, according to CMS. That follows a 7.4% jump in 2023.
But, as hard as it was, I did find some with tongue firmly in cheek.
National health spending on Medicare privatization, also known as Medicare Advantage (MA), rose only 9% in 2024 to about $596.3 billion. It’s a record dollar spending figure, but the single digit increase of 9% is the smallest annual increase in MA spending since 2016 when it rose a meager 8.1%.
Between then and now,...
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