Study: Government Health Care Costs Climbing

NPR | By Renee Montagne

Published March 3, 2005 at 12:00 AM EST

David Wessel, deputy Washington bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal, talks about trends in health care spending. A new study published in the journal Health Affairs shows that the government will account for half of all health care spending within a decade.

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