Nonfederal hospitals costs have hovered around $35 billion to $40 billion since 2018, and in 2023, overall prescription drug spending is expected to be about $38 billion, or a 1 percent to 3 percent increase from the prior year.
almost from the audience that he s in the right. i don t think he s the best of the three worst guys. i think that he really was demonstrating leadership and we ll see with the deal. let s change gears and, jimmy, let me play you a mash up of some of the comments made about secretary clinton. i m not a doctor, but it seems as though that the secretary of state has come down with a case of benghazi flu. this is a diplomatic illness to beat the band. charles, you had a good line, hillary has severe benghazi allergy. i have been doing a lot of work on that. that s the first reported case and it s a very, very severe one. very, very severe. let s see the medical report on that. unbelievable. now we know she is in the hospital spending new year s eve because of a blood clot that was discovered during routine short of checkup after her concussion. so, you know, john bolton called it a diplomatic illness. alan west, my favorite outgoing
they got their fiscal house in order. euro zone leaders wanted a treaty change signed by up a27 eu nations. at 5:00 a.m. in brussels, a weary nicolas sarkozy confirmed that britain was not playing ball. translator: david cameron requested something which we all considered unacceptable, namely that there be a protocol written into the treaty which enabled the uk to opt out of a certain number of rules applying to financial services. we re not able to accept that. we consider quite the contrary. so the 17 euro zone members along with 6 others in favor must now press on with what s being called an intergovernmental agreement. their goals, well, to introduce binding control on the budgets of those 17 countries, also to implement a new fund known as the european stability mechanism capped at 500 billion euros by july. to lend a further 200 billion euros to the imf with a view to supporting nations in need. and already the ecb s guidance to steer the current bailout fund, the e