As it can be seen in Table 1, there was a tremendous cut in hospital expenses in the period 2009–2013. Specifically, total expenses in 2013 were cut by almost 52% since 2009. A closer look at the evolution of expenses over time reveals that the sharpest decline occurred between 2011 and 2012. In particular, almost 35 out of the 52 percentage points of the total cut took place in the transition from 2011 to 2012.