We examined trends in per capita spending for Medicare beneficiaries ages sixty-five and older in the United States in the period 1999–2012 to determine why spending growth has been declining ...

The average taxpayer’s piece of the $37-trillion federal debt is about $240,000, or six years of the median income.

"We've lagged for a long time in federal payments per capita, per state resident. And maybe to some degree that mitigates the effects of federal spending cuts.

Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen talks foreign trade, federal spending cuts and his once-rocky relationship with the president.

In fiscal 2023, the most recent year for which detailed financial information is available, Medicaid’s net cost was $894.2 ...

Thirty-one states, plus the District of Columbia, received more than they paid in. New Mexico, for example, sent around $12.4 ...

Exhibit 4 Mean per capita health care expenditures for adults with limited English proficiency (LEP), Hispanic adults with English proficiency (EP), and non-Hispanic adults with EP, 1999–2018 ...

But their history omits a crucial fact about U.S. health expenditures: While growth rates in private health spending per capita have bounced up and down, federal Medicare expenditures per enrollee ...

This chart shows the projected effects of the proposed House budget bill and its components on U.S. uninsured and death ...

The rate of increase in per capita private-sector health spending fell rapidly but then bounced back within a few years.

Economic news is increasingly hard to follow these days, mainly because it changes so fast and it gives so many mixed signals ...