"The data reported by the [Office of the Actuary at CMS] show that 2013 was another year of historically slow growth in national health expenditures. National health expenditures rose just 1.4 percent in real per capita terms in 2013, slower than the 1.5 percent increase in real per capita GDP in 2013. The last three years -- 2011, 2012, and 2013 -- are the three slowest years of growth in real per capita national health expenditures since record-keeping began in 1960."