AXIOS March 27, 2025
Long Island; Washington, D.C. and California’s Bay Area had the country’s highest health care spending per capita in 2019 — the most recent year covered by a new study.
Why it matters: Medical spending is surging nationwide, with demand and other factors pushing it to a projected $7.7 trillion by 2032 — but actual spending varies from county to county.
Driving the news: In a study published in the March 25 issue of JAMA, researchers analyzed Americans’ health care spending using data from billions of insurance claims and hundreds of millions of hospital visits and admissions for 2010 through 2019.
- The analysis includes health care spending via private insurance, Medicaid and Medicare, plus out-of-pocket spending.
- Some health care-related categories,...
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