Her medical spending will decline to $105 a month, from $147, for a saving of $42.

Vermont and Minnesota have already decided to set targets for overall medical spending.

Employees can use these accounts to cover their medical spending, and in some cases treatments not usually covered by health insurance.

The simple truth is that medical spending can't continue to rise at its current rate.

He said rising medical spending "is beginning to cut into our ability as a nation to educate people and deal with other pressing problems."

Healthy workers would receive a bonus credit for future medical spending.

Some health economists say the added costs will make consumers more cautious about medical spending.

For now, the high-priced cancer drugs are a relatively small part of overall medical spending.

As I've written before, we sometimes worry too much about medical spending.

Employer costs are rising even faster than the rise in medical spending over all.