we'll hear today from anne martin, economist in the national health statistics group in the office of the actuary at the centers of medicare and medicaid services. michael hartman, statistician in the office of the actuary. they are joined by aaron kaplan in the office of the actuary and benjamin washington, economist also in the national health statistics group. they are here as resources, as i know are other representatives from cms. let me turn over to anne to begin presenting the results. >> thank you, alan. thank you all for coming today. my name is anne martin here with other members of the national health expenditure accounts team to present to you the results of national health spending in 2015 and trend set we will discuss today highlights some of the important points seen in our article. it will be presented as a health affairs web first at 2:00 p.m. today. also at 2:00 p.m. all the data will be presented on our website. so to start off with some of the overall findings on national health expenditures, total spending for health care in the united states reached $3.2 trillion

my name is ann martin, i'm here with other members of the national health expenditure account team toresent to you the results of national health spending in 2015 and the trends ta we will discuss today highlight some of the important points seen in our article. it will be presented as a health affairs web first 2:00 p.m. today and also at 2:00 p.m. all the data will be presented on our website. so to start off with some of the overall findings on national health expenditures, total spending for health care in the united states reached $3.2 trillion, up from $3 trillion in 2014. per capita health spending reached $9,990 per person, from $9,515 per person in 2014. overall rate of growth 2015 was 5.8%. this was faster than in 2014 when spending grew 5.3%. in 2013 when spending grew 2.9%. it was also the highest rate of growth since 2007 or since the beginning of the great recession. health care spending is a share of the total economy or gdp increased to 17.8% in 2015 from 17.4% in 2014. as an acceleration in health spending was accompanied by a slowdown in overall economic growth. on t

my name is anne martin. i'm here with other members of the national health expenditure accounts team to present to you the results of national health spending in 2015. and the trends that we will discuss today highlight some of the important point seen in our article. it will be presented as health affairs web first at 2:00 p.m. first and also at 2:00 p.m., all the data will be presented on our website. to start off with some of the overall findings on national health expenditures, total spending for health care in the united states reached $3.2 trillion, up from $3 trillion in 2014. per capita health spending reached $999 per person up from $9,915 per person in 2014. the overall rate of growth in 2015 was 5.8%. this was faster than in 2014 when spending grew 5.3% and in 2013 when spending grew 2.9%. it was also the highest rate of growth since 2007 where since the beginning of the great recession. health care spending is a share of the total economy, or gdp, increased to 17.8% in 2015 from 17.4% in 2014. as

my name is ann martin. i'm here with the other members of the national health expenditure accounts team to present to you the results of national health spending in 2015. and the trends that we will discuss today highlight some of the important points seen in our article. it will be presented as health affairs first at 2:00 p.m. today and at 2:00 p.m. all the at a at a will be presented on our website. >> so to start off with some of the overall findings of national expenditures total spending reached $3.2 trillion up from $3 trillion in 2014. reached $9,990 per person from $9,515 per person in 2014. the overall rate of growth in 2015 was 5.8%. this was faster than in 2014 when spending grew 5.3% and in 2013 when spending crew 2.9%. it was also the highest rate of growth since 2007 or since the beginning of the rate recession. health care spending has a share of the total economy or fwrks dp inreesed to 17.8% in 2015 from 17.4% in 2014 as an acceleration in health spending was accompanied by a slow down in

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anne thompson in berlin for us. thanks so much. >>> president-elect trump weighed in on the attack in berlin after meeting with executives from the nation's largest defense contractors. boeing and lockheed martin. nbc's kristen welker has more on that story. kristen, good morning. >> reporter: hoda, good morning to you. a senior transition official tells me president-elect donald trump's day is again stacked with meetings and it comes after that rare and quick press availability that he held yesterday. he covered a range of topics and even raised a few eyebrows. president-elect donald trump trying to show he's hard at work even at mar-a-lago. meeting wednesday with the heads of two major defense contractors, lockheed martin and boeing. trump previously threatened to cancel boeing's order for two new air force one planes claiming it would cost more than $4 billion. after the meeting, boeing's ceo now says -- >> we're going to get it done for less than that. >> reporter: trump also called the cost of lockheed martin's f-35 fighter jet out of control. he insists that price will also come down. >> it is a dance. you know? it is a little bit of a dance. but we're going to get the costs down and we'