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Total Medicare spending 1970-2017

Total Medicare spending from 1970 to 2017 (Figures expressed in billions of U.S. dollars, unless otherwise specified)

The data illustrates total Medicare spending from 1970 to 2017. In 1970, some 7.1 billion USD were spent on the Medicare program in the U.S. Forty years later, this figure stood at some 521 billion USD.

1970	7.1
1975	14.8
1980	35
1985	71.4
1990	109.7
1995	180.1
2000	219.3
2005	336.9
2006	380.5
2007	434.8
2008	455.1
2009	498.3
2010	521.2
2011	560.3
2012	550.1
2013	581.7
2014	600.3
2015	638.1
2016	694.5
2017	707.4

Total Medicare spending 1970-2017

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