Health care industry's resiliency to surging inflation is poised to ebb

While the price of groceries, energy, and other goods and services have surged alongside record-high inflation this year, the health care sector has been mostly immune to immediate price increases. That immunity is starting to wane, industry experts say. Overall U.S. consumer prices climbed 8.5% in July from a year prior as the consumer price index hit a four-decade high, but medical care expenses increased just 4.8% in the same period, according to a tracker from the Kaiser Family Foundation and Peterson Center.