Categories of Spending over Time
Percentage of GDP
Fiscal year

Source: GAO.
Notes: Data are from GAO's 2020 alternative simulation. The alternative simulation assumes that health care cost containment mechanisms, including those enacted in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, are not sustained over the long term (the baseline extended simulation assumes that they reduce excess health care cost growth over the long term). Read about the assumptions underlying this simulation.
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