Health Care Spending Growth Stays Slow, CMS Says-thegraysheet: \Historically low growth rates in U.S. health care spending continued in 2012, CMS announced Jan. 6, citing the recent economic recession as the major contributing factor. The growth rate in 2012, for which the most recent data is available, remained at 3.7 percent, consistent with the 2011 rate, CMS stated in its annual report on health care spending, which will be published in the January issue of the journal Health Affairs.
