I don't mean to pick on the WSJ, but with regard to the recent article "U.S. Health-Spending Growth Jumped to 5.5% in 2014," how difficult is it to put drug spending in context by looking at projected changes in totals, per capita and percent of Medicare spending?? LOUISE RADNOFSKY manages to find out that Medicare Rx spending increased 15.1 from 2014-2015, but couldn't seem to find the out years even through there were on the same chart in the Medicare Trustees Report. So for those of you who care.. here's the rest of the story. It took me a whole 15 minutes to put this together. All by myself.
