Business, Households, and Government: Health Care Spending, 1995

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  • Cathy A. Cowan
  • Bradley R. Braden
چکیده

For the period 1990-95, we will present data on health care spending by business, households, and government. In addition, we will measure the relative impact of these expenditures on each sector's ability to pay. In 1994 and 1995, health care costs experienced the slowest growth in 3 decades. Combined with healthy revenue growth, slow cost growth helped ease or stabilize the financing burden faced by business, households and government.

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عنوان ژورنال:

دوره 18  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1997