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Health Expenditures

(Data are for U.S. for 2001)

Health expenditures: $1.4 trillion

Health expenditures as a percent of Gross Domestic Product: 14.1

Percent of health expenditures using public funds: 45

Source:  Health, United States, 2003, table 112

Percent of health expenditures for hospital care: 32

Percent of health expenditures for nursing home care: 7

Percent of health expenditures for physician and clinical services: 22

Percent of health expenditures for prescription drugs: 10

Source: Health, United States, 2003

More Data

Personal health care expenditures by type of expenditure and source of funds: 1960-2001  Health, United States, 2003, table 116

Expenditures for health care and prescribed medicine by selected population characteristics: 1987-99 Health, United States, 2003 table 117

Sources of payment for health care by selected population characteristics: 1987-1999 Health, United States, 2003 table 118

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This page last reviewed March 25, 2004

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