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Filed spending rose 15.4% in FY2023, the median town 5.6%; FY2024’s figure counts more accounts.
Yearly rise in filed health spending
Lunenburg, as filedLunenburg FY2024, Medicare and life addedLunenburg, health accounts aloneour estimateMedian municipality
Lunenburg, as filed
Lunenburg FY2024, Medicare and life added
Lunenburg, health accounts alone
Median municipality
FY2022
4.3%
not published
not published
1.8%
FY2023
15.4%
not published
not published
5.6%
FY2024
not published
15.5%
1.2%
5.3%
FY2025
5.0%
not published
not published
7.7%
FY2024’s health accounts alone are our subtraction from the ledger. Which accounts FY2025’s figure counts is not established.
1 · The facts
15.4%
rise, FY2023, Lunenburg
5.6%
rise, FY2023, median town
15.5%
rise, FY2024, Lunenburg
5.3%
rise, FY2024, median town
1.2%
FY2024 on the health accounts alone (ours)
our estimate
5.0%
rise, FY2025, Lunenburg
7.7%
rise, FY2025, median town
11 of 14
ten-year windows under 4% a year
FY2023
last such window ends
2 · What it shows
1
FY2023 rose 15.4% against a median 5.6%.
2
FY2024’s 15.5% compares a figure with Medicare and life to one without; health alone rose 1.2%.
3
FY2025 rose 5.0%, below the median town’s 7.7%.
4
Its ten-year rate was under 4% in 11 of 14 windows, the last ending FY2023.
Lunenburg’s filed health spending, by period
Year
Lunenburg
Median town
FY2025
5.0%
7.7%
FY2024
15.5%
5.3%
FY2023
15.4%
5.6%
FY2022
4.3%
1.8%
Each year’s rise in spending as filed on Schedule A.