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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...
متن کاملPrivate 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...
متن کاملRecent state legislation concerning prepayment medical care.
*Chief, Medical Economics Section, D i vision of Health and Disability Studies, Bureau of Research and Statistics. This article is based on addresses presented at a Conference on R u r a l Medical Care, Pur due University, August 1, 1946, and the National Conference on Cooperative Health Plans, Two Harbors, Minn., August 17, 1946. In this study of State legislation in the field of voluntary pre...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Public Health and the Nations Health
سال: 1966
ISSN: 0002-9572
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.56.4.687-a