Total economic impact of community hospitals in the U.S. in 2009 (fee-based)

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This statistic depicts the total impact of community hospitals on the economy in the United States in 2009. In that year, hospital expenditures in the U.S. came to some 680 billion U.S. dollars, while the effect of these expenditures on the total national economic output was over 2.2 trillion U.S. dollars.