Some Numbers on US Health Care Costs

Once a month I try to look at the data on national health care expenditures from the Altarum Institute, who keep track of these things.

There might be a bit of progress relative to Gross Domestic Product.

The fuzziness of the graphs and figure I post -- not as apparent at the largest size offered, but otherwise it is -- is due to Google reformatting them after they're uploaded to Blogger,, to a lower resolution. Not much I can do about that, as far as I know. Google doesn't seem very interested in improving Blogger, or even maintaining it. But transitioning to another platform at this point, after about 13 or so years of blogging here, seems like it would be a nightmare.

(Maybe blogs are on their way out anyway?)