Realities of private medical care

Private Medical Care Expenditures and Voluntary Health Insurance, 1948–60

PRIVATE expenditures for medical care in the United St,ates amounted in 1060 to $10.6 billion. This total was nearly $1.6 billion more than that spent in 1059. The data presented here for 1060 represent a continuation of a series of annual estimates made by the Division of Program Research and published each year, generally in the December issue of the BULLETIN. Slight adjustments have been mad...

Private Medical Care Expenditures and Voluntary Health Insurance, 1948–61

THE NATION’S private consumer expenditures for medical care amounted in 1961 to $21.1 billion$1.3 billion or approximately 7 percent more than the amount spent in 1960. Direct out-of-pocket payments by consumers amounted to $14.4 billion or 68 percent of the total. The balance of $6.7 billion, representing payments for health insurance, was $832 million or 14 percent greater than the amount spe...

[Public and private: insurance companies and medical care in Mexico].

During the late 70's and early 80's in Mexico, as in the rest of Latin-America, sanitary policies were directed to support the growth of the private sector of health care at the expense of the public sector. This work analyzes the evolution of the health insurance market as a part of the privatization process of health care. The analysis based on economic data, provides the political profile be...

Health Care Reform's Effect on Private Medical Practices

Multiple realities in a study of medical consultations.

A study of doctor-patient communication offers convincing arguments for using multiple methods of data collection incorporating both meanings and practices. Multiple realities emerged clearly that would have remained invisible had only one data source been used. Two case studies illustrate how four factors interact to produce different versions of reality: setting, participants, time, and forms...