Rise in infectious / parasitic disease health care spending

As a "side-line" (when not trying to address the rampant issue of Lyme in my family), I'm an economist, with a 30+ year involvement in helping health systems work better.
[Sidebar: to my horror, I've discovered a massive disconnect between the beautiful rhetoric we've used for 15 or so years and reality - terms like "patient- & family-centred care" and "evidence-based care" "outcome-based care" "accountability"....but I digress]

I came upon this the other day, which I feel shows so much about the need for enhanced attention to what we're all dealing with! It's data from "US Health Care Satellite Accounts 2000-2014" which, among other things, shows health care spending in different ways --- in this case by disease.

The second diagram in the link I've attached illustrates the % increase in health spending, by disease, for the ONE-YEAR period from 2013 to 2014 (so before the 2016 Zika spending).

HIGHEST percentage increase at 19.6% is for infectious and parasitic diseases!!!! Across all health care spending. That tsunami is building.

I suspect it's the same up here in Canada - except, based on my family's experience, the diagnoses of infectious disease wouldn't get made or reported in any records --- so statistics would be misleading and spending would show up in some other category.

[url]https://blog.bea.gov/2017/08/17/bea-releases-new-health-care-statistics-for-2014/

I wonder if my case is on the 'books' as lyme.

My GP has charted on it when she's been adding information to the computer.