For no particular reason, here's another health care chart. This one shows how much people spend each year personally on professional health care. It doesn't count aspirin or massages or stuff like that. It's the personal share of employer premiums plus out-of-pocket costs not covered by insurance. This is per-person; spending per family is higher but the trend is the same.
Note that this number hasn't gone up for the past six years.
Any sense of how much of this is spread across the populace, and how much is because a lot of people are insured who weren't insured before?
looks about correct to me, knock on wood my spending was like $400 a year (age 60 now) until last years emergency department kidney stone visit for $3000. nice that my HSA contributions knocked $2000 off my taxes...
Clearly the effect of the far better, much cheaper, and covering everyone Trump Health Care Plan.
Thanks Obama!