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The economic recession has increased the nation’s health care bills, forcing Americans to spend 5.7 percent more for health services and drugs in 2009 than they spent in 2008, according to new projections in a report by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Most Americans think health care legislation is doomed, according to a survey released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center. But a growing, if still small, percentage of people are becoming more optimistic that it may pass.

Denver CO - One of the concerns of health insurance customers these days is that the cost of their personal and family health insurance policies are increasing drastically making it difficult for them to provide proper health cover for their families. In a bad economy, customers are highly conscious about cutting back on their personal expenses in all possible ways.

WASHINGTON -- For all the hue and cry over a government takeover of health care, it's happening anyway.

Reporting from Washington - In a stark reminder of growing costs, the government has released a new estimate that healthcare spending grew to a record 17.3% of the U.S. economy last year, marking the largest one-year jump in its share of the economy since the government started keeping such records half a century ago.