Total health care spending for a typical family of four with solid employer coverage may be just 4.3% higher this year than it was last year.

Analysts at Milliman, an actuarial consulting firm, have published that prediction in their latest medical spending index report.

Overall spending for the Milliman index family may rise to $26,944 in 2017, but the rate of increase is the lowest Milliman has recorded since the firm began publishing the spending index reports in 2001.

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