she will be followed by michael hartman who is a statistician. he's a national health statistics group. two of the individuals here that will be available to answer question or help answer questions or respond to opinions, whatever. lekha whittle who is the economist in the office of the actuary. >> thank you very much. is this how i operate this? ok. good morning, thank you all for coming today. my name is anne martin. i'm here today with other members of the national health expenditure accounts team to present to you the results of our national spending article for 2012. the trends that we will discuss today highlights some of the important points contained in our article which is to be published in the january edition of health affairs. just a couple reminders, the information that we're presenting here today is embargoed until 4:00 p.m. at that time, the entire historical data series will be available on our website. i'll start off with main points of the 2012 report. national health expenditures increased 3.7% in 2012 compared to 3.6% in 201

she will be followed by michael hartman who is a statistician. he's a national health statistics group. two of the individuals here that will be available to answer question or help answer questions or respond to opinions, whatever. lekha whittle who is the economist in the office of the actuary. >> thank you very much. is this how i operate this? ok. good morning, thank you all for coming today. my name is anne martin. i'm here today with other members of the national health expenditure accounts team to present to you the results of our national spending article for 2012. the trends that we will discuss today highlights some of the important points contained in our article which is to be published in the january edition of health affairs. just a couple reminders, the information that we're presenting here today is embargoed until 4:00 p.m. at that time, the entire historical data series will be available on our website. i'll start off with main points of the 2012 report. national health expenditures increased 3.7% in 2012 compared to 3.6% in 201