Consumers Catch Break as Health Care Spending and Pricing Slow

Consumers Catch Break as Health Care Spending and Pricing Slow
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Healthcare hiring, pricing and spending are all falling, providing relief to and partially being driven by consumers, according to analysis released Thursday by think-tank Altarum Institute.

Though still the biggest contributor to national jobs growth, healthcare hiring is about two-thirds of what it was a year ago through the first five months of 2017, said Ani Turner, co-director of Altarum's Center for Sustainable Health Spending.



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