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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. health-care spending will devour an expanding share of the U.S. economy during the next decade, almost doubling to about $4.3 trillion in 2017, government officials forecast on Tuesday.

Economists at the U.S. government's Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, known as CMS, forecast that health-care spending will account for 19.5 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product by 2017, up from 16.3 percent in 2007.

http://www.reuters.com/article/domes...23792720080226

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This problem has approximately a 30 year time span. 30 years from now a good portion of baby boomers will have passed on and then the population will be younger and healthier.