Private Medical Care Expenditures and Voluntary Health Insurance, 1948–60
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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 made in the data for 1958 and 1050, published in the December 1960 issue, for conformity with adjustments made by the Department of Commerce in its series. ante carriers under the temporary disability programs of New York and California are, however, included. (These programs are established by law but provide benefits through private carriers.) Benefits paid under the public disability insurance program of California are excluded. The data in this article are taken, in part, from estimates prepared by the National Income
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