claim: "in the period from 2007 to 2011, the office of health insurance commissioner reported an 18 percent decline in the state’s total medical spending."
author: joshua miller
evidence_1: a report from the pew charitable trusts and the john d. and catherine t. ....  correctional health care spending rose in 41 states from fiscal 2007 to 2011, ...  per-inmate health care spending also rose in 39 states over the period, with a ...  the downturn in spending was due, in part, to a reduction in state prison  populations.
evidence_2: health risk factors, prevention, health insurance, and personal health care  expenditures. this year's chartbook focuses on long-term trends in health. the  report ...
evidence_3: although employment related to consumer spending declined during the recent  ... 2007 and 2010, over a third of total job declines during that time frame. .... like  health care continue to grow, 63.2 percent of jobs in the u.s. economy ....  sources: u.s. bureau of economic analysis (2013) and u.s. bureau of labor  statistics.
evidence_4: nov 19, 2015 ... u.s. health care expenditures have steadily increased as a share of gross ...  using definitions and concepts generally consistent with the bureau of ... over  time, the marginal contribution of health spending to gdp has ... rate of 5.7  percent.16 as overall health spending increased at a ...... publishing 2011.
evidence_5: jun 22, 2018 ... medicare spending was 15 percent of total federal spending in 2017, and is ... in  the 2018 medicare trustees report, the medicare hospital insurance (part a) ...  doubled between 2007 and 2017, from 18 percent ($78 billion) to 30 percent ...  aging on to medicare, who have lower per capita health care costs.