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Experience Is Driving Health Care Costs!

Provided by the Health Initiative Project
An Employee Health Program with Accountability

Employees who use the health care system account for 37% of health care cost increases through increased consumer demand and demands for drugs, medical devices, and other medical advances.

Some of the demand is because Americans are getting older. The median age, which is the point where half the population was older and half was younger, has increased by three years in the last decade.

Median Age

1990

32.9

2000

35.3

Since health care costs increase as people get older, the increase in the age of the population is one of the driving factors for the increase in health care costs.

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