New Bipartisan Policy Center Report Identifies Key Drivers of Health Care Costs

Health spending expected to rise quickly in coming years - Sept. 20, 2012

Washington, D.C. – A new report released today by the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) found that health care costs in the United States are expected to increase in coming years due to population growth, utilization and intensity of health care services and increasing prices. The BPC report, entitled, What Is Driving U.S. Health Care Spending? America’s Unsustainable Health Care Cost Growth, identifies an extensive list of health care cost drivers ranging from structural barriers to reducing costs within the current system to the more dynamic, changing aspects that will impact the overall growth rate of health care spending.

Read the full paper here