NATIONAL-HEALTH EXPENDITURES, 1993

This article Presents data on health care spending for the United Stat es, covering expenditures for various types of medical services and Pr oducts and their sources of funding from 1960 to 1993. Although these statistics show a slowing in the growth of health care expenditures ov er the past few years, spending continues to increase faster than the overall economy. The share of the Nation's health care bill funded by the Federal Government through the Medicaid and Medicare programs stea dily increased from 1991 to 1993. This significant change in the share of health expenditures funded by the public sector has caused Federal health expenditures as a share of all Federal spending to increase dr amatically.