With the Obama administration revealing today that health-care spending in 2008 saw its smallest rise since 1960, long-time health policy reporter Merrill
“„The fact that employers cut workers (and therefore health coverage) didn’t mean people stopped getting sick. So health care spending by households grew 4.3 percent last year. And while that was a slower than the previous year’s growth, it was still far more than the 2.7 percent growth in personal income.