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Date or order number: 1970
Description: Double digit increases
Content: Health care costs spiraled upward at double-digit rates after a massive increase in accesses created by Medicare and Medicaid in 1965.

Date or order number: 1980
Description: Rate of increase began slowing

Date or order number: 1990
Description: Medical Inflation Cools
Content: Inflation of medical costs becomes reduced to a single digit rate of growth, mostly because medical care costs and utilization were controlled through managed care

Date or order number: 2010
Description: Health Care Reform


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