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. 1985 Fall;7(1):1-35.

National health expenditures, 1984

K R Levit, H Lazenby, D R Waldo, L M Davidoff

National health expenditures, 1984

K R Levit et al. Health Care Financ Rev. 1985 Fall.

Abstract

Growth in health care expenditures slowed to 9.1 percent in 1984, the smallest increase in expenditures in 19 years. Economic forces and emerging structural changes within the health sector played a role in slowing growth. Of the $1,580 per person spent for health care in 1984, 41 percent was financed by public programs; 31 percent by private health insurance; and the remainder by other private sources. Together, Medicare and Medicaid accounted for 27 percent of all health spending.

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Figure 1. Growth in national health expenditures and in the gross national product, and national health expenditures as a percent of the gross national product: Calendar years 1965-84
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Figure 2. The Nation's health dollar, 1984
Figure 3
Figure 3. Number and percent distribution of Medicare-certified home health agencies, by type of agency, selected points in time
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Figure 4. Measures of economic activity in the health care industry and in the United States as a whole: 1984
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Figure 5. Factors in the increase of personal health care expenditures: 1983-84
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