Private Health Insurance: Coverage and Financial Experience, 1940–66
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PRIK4TE HEALTII INSURANCE in 1966 continued its expansion in the numher of persons and services covered and in premiums and benefit expenditures. ,4hout four-fifths of the population under age 65 have private health insurance coverage of one type or another. IIealth insurance meets more than 70 percent of all consumer expenditures for hospital care hut less than a third of consumer expenditures for all types of personal medical care. In 1966 private health insurance organizations entered on a new role-as fiscal intermediaries under the Federal Government’s program of health insurance for the aged (Medicare).
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