The US is expected to spend more than $560 billion on prescription medications in 2026, up 8.2% from last year as drugs for obesity and diabetes grow increasingly popular.<\/p>\n
The nation\u2019s total healthcare tab \u2014 the collective expenditures by governments, businesses and households \u2014 is projected to surpass $6 trillion in 2026, fueled in large part by prescription drug outlays, according to a report from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services<\/a> released Wednesday. Spending on prescriptions will likely grow faster than any other major category.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US is expected to spend more than $560 billion on prescription medications in 2026, up 8.2% from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":759097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[64,63,8197,20097,1730,100752,2057,6202,3786,137,18461,9959,490,100753,84],"class_list":["post-759096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-baby-boomers","tag-donald-john-trump","tag-drugs","tag-eli-lilly-co","tag-europe","tag-food-and-drug-administration","tag-government","tag-health","tag-industries","tag-law","tag-medication","tag-novo-nordisk-a-s-b","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/759097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}