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Total Medicare spending 1970-2016

Total Medicare spending from 1970 to 2016 (in billion U.S. dollars)*

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	Total spending in billion U.S. dollars
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	694.6

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This statistic depicts total Medicare spending from 1970 to 2016. In 1970, some 7.1 billion U.S. dollars were spent on the Medicare program in the United States. Forty years later, this figure stood at some 521 billion U.S. dollars.

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