Annual United States health care services expenditures total edal most $3.5 trillionin 2017. Healthcare is one of the largest line items in Federal and State Government spending. Health cares pending is estimated to grow at an average of 5.5% per year from 2018 through 2027.Further more, over the same period, health care spending is estimated to grow 0.8% faster than GDP per year. As a result, the health care portion of GDP is expected to rise from 17.9% in 2017 to 19.4% by 2027