US Health Care Spending by Payer and Health Condition, 1996-2016

Health savings accounts and health care spending.

OBJECTIVE The impact of consumer-driven health plans (CDHPs) has primarily been studied in a small number of large, self-insured employers, but this work may not generalize to the wide array of firms that make up the overall economy. The goal of our research is to examine effects of health savings accounts (HSAs) on total, medical, and pharmacy spending for a large number of small and midsized ...

Household spending on health care.

OBJECTIVES This article examines changes in household spending on health care between 1978 and 1998. It also provides a detailed look at household spending on health care in 1998. DATA SOURCES Data on household spending are from Statistics Canada's Family Expenditure Survey for survey years between 1978 and 1996, and from the annual Survey of Household Spending for 1997 and 1998. ANALYTICAL...

Government health care spending and child mortality.

BACKGROUND Government health care spending (GHS) is of increasing importance to child health. Our study determined the relationship between reductions in GHS and child mortality rates in high- and low-income countries. METHODS The authors used comparative country-level data for 176 countries covering the years 1981 to 2010, obtained from the World Bank and the Institute for Health Metrics and...

Health Care Spending, Quality, and Outcomes

San Francisco Chicago New York Washington-Baltimore Detroit The U.S. health care system is broken. Overall life expectancy has improved, but the burden of chronic illness is increasing, and racial and socioeconomic disparities in mortality are widening.1,2 Almost 50 million Americans lack health insurance, and coverage for many others is inadequate.3 The safety and reliability of care in hospit...

Health care spending and American competitiveness.