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Headlines 2 July 2026

Nearly half of adults struggled to afford healthcare last year, survey finds

Forty-six percent of U.S. adults — regardless of insurance type — reported struggling to afford healthcare last year, according to a report released last Wednesday by the Urban Institute, a nonprofit research think tank.
Headlines 27 December 2023

Spending on health care in US rises to $4.5 trillion in 2022, a return to pre-pandemic growth rates

After skyrocketing in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic and then tempering almost as dramatically a year later, health care spending in the U.S rose just over 4 percent in 2022, hitting $4.5 trillion, the federal government announced last Wednesday.