VolzGntary Caie Health Inmrame aBd Medical Expetzditures: A TemYear Review

Each year, starting with 1948, the Social Security Administration has prepared an annual summary of the extent to which voluntary health insurance is enabling the population of the United States to budget its medical care expenditures. The methodology originally developed has been consistently applied each year, although refinements and improvements have been made in the data. This year the series incorporates the revisions in personal consumption expenditures for medical care for the entire period 1948-56, recently released by the Department of Commerce.