
Almanac
National Health Spending Almanac — 2025 Edition
National health care spending totaled $4.9 trillion in 2023. The Almanac report provides a detailed look at national health care spending.
Health Care Costs and Financing

Health Care Cost Commissions: How Eight States Address Cost Growth
Health Care Costs and Financing

Markets or Monopolies? Considerations for Addressing Health Care Consolidation in California
Health Care Costs and Financing
Ever-Rising Health Costs Worsen California’s Coronavirus Threat
COVID-19, Health Care Costs and Financing

Commissioning Change: How Four States Use Advisory Boards to Contain Health Spending
Health Care Costs and Financing

Report
The Sky’s the Limit
California pays significantly more for common health care services than the rest of the country, and the gap has been widening. A critical factor in the fast growth of prices is market concentration — including hospital consolidation and physician integration — which has been proliferating in the state. The Sky’s the Limit: Health Care Prices…
Health Care Costs and Financing

Getting to Affordability: Spending Trends and Waste in California’s Health Care System
Health Care Costs and Financing, Hospital Financing

Aligning Health Cost Growth with Economic Growth Would Save Californians Billions
Health Care Costs and Financing





