The Colorado Commission on Affordable Health Care reported high healthcare costs in Colorado are expected to continuing increasing, according to The Denver Post.
Here are five takeaways:
1. Personal spending on healthcare in Colorado has quadrupled in the past two decades.
2. Coloradans spent about $36.3 billion on healthcare costs in 2013, a 327 percent increase over two decades. This increase is above the 216 percent national increase over the last two decades.
3. With Colorado's aging population, healthcare spending naturally increases. Those residents between 45 years and 64 years put the most money toward healthcare.
4. However, personal healthcare spending in Colorado averaged $5,994 in 2009, ranking as the seventh-lowest number in the nation.
5. The commission report calls for total health system reform to lower costs, but will not recommend any steps until holding nine community meetings in spring 2016.
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