Healthcare Inflation Perks Up

Last week, I posted “the most important economic chart in the U.S. right now” which shows that healthcare inflation is coming inline with all other inflation.

Not so fast.

Healthcare relative inflation ticked up last month. Check out the graph:

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Please note that the chart above isn’t inflation — it’s the medical portion of the CPI divided by the core portion of the CPI. That’s the amount that medical inflation is exceeding core inflation.

As always, one point doesn’t make a trend, but this is interesting to note.

Posted by on September 17th, 2013 at 3:41 pm


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