Karen Ignagni, president and CEO of America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP),says new federal analysis confirms that rising costs for medicalservices, not health plan administration, is a huge driver for thesurge in national health spending.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) releaseddata this week showing health care's share of the economy grew 1.1percentage points in 2009 - the largest one-year increase in GDPshare since the federal government began keeping track in 1960.
Expenses for health care in the U.S. now accounts for 17.3percent of GDP, and is expected to rise.
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