National Health Expenditures

Data

• National Health Expenditures (HCFA)
  Site includes downloadable tables of U.S. health spending by type, by source, per capita, and annual rates of change for all calendar years 1960-1999. 1999 figures are latest available U.S. actual national health expenditures reported.
  
• Trends in Personal Health Care Expenditures, Health Insurance, and Payment Sources, Community-Based Population, 1987-1995 (AHCPR: 3/97)
  Based on 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey data for the civilian community-based population "aged" to 1995 based on demographic and payer trends. Detailed tables show per capita spending by service, by payer status, by poverty status and other breakdowns.
  
  

Analysis

• Controlling Health Care Expenditures (Blumenthal, NEJM, 3/8/01)
• Financing the U.S. Health Care System (Conover, Duke University, May 2000)
  Slide presentation covering expenditures, trends, projections, and other data.
• Medical Cost, How High is Too High? (Scientific American, April 1999)

Methods

• National Health Accounts: Definitions, Sources, and Methods (HCFA)