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Last Updated: June 25, 2009
In 2001, 5% of Medicare beneficiaries accounted for 43% of Medicare spending. For these beneficiaries, health care spending averaged around $63,000 per year. The bottom 50% of beneficiaries accounted for only 4% of spending--with an average cost of around $550 per year.
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Congressional Budget Office. High-Cost Medicare Beneficiaries. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Budget Office. May 2005. [ Permalink ] |
Death rates from heart disease and stroke are falling in-part because of new drug treatments. According to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, if death rates were the same as those 30 years ago, 815,000 more Americans would die of heart disease annually and 250,000 more would die of stroke.
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PhRMA. 2009 Report: Medicines in development for heart disease and stroke. PhRMA. 2009. [ Permalink ] |
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