You’d think the MSM would be all over this, instead we get crickets chirping.

Via CNBC:

The U.S. economy likely contracted at a much sharper pace in the first quarter than previously estimated with data on Wednesday showing weaker health care spending.

The Commerce Department’s quarterly services survey, or QSS, showed health care outlays were not as strong as the government had assumed when it published its second gross domestic product estimate for the first quarter last month.

The government reported that the economy contracted at a 1.0 percent annual rate in the January-March period. But with health care spending data now in hand, economists say growth probably declined at a rate of at least 1.7 percent.

A widening of the nation’s trade deficit in March had already led economists to anticipate a downward revision to GDP when the government publishes its third estimate later this month.

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