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| <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/09/AR2006010901932.html" target="_blank">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co...6010901932.html</a> <br>
 <br>Rising health care costs, already threatening many basic industries, now consume 16 percent of the nation's economic output -- the highest proportion ever, the government said yesterday in its latest calculation.
 <br>The nation's health care bill continued to grow substantially faster than inflation and wages, increasing by almost 8 percent in 2004, the most recent year with near-final numbers.
 <br>Spending for physicians and hospitals shot up considerably faster than in recent years, while drug costs grew at a slower rate than over the past decade.
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 <br>中国的情况怎样?
 <br>HIS一直宣称能节省医院的支出.这是否HIS的机遇?
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