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Article: National health spending continues to climb reports Health Affairs.
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- July 3, 1990
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NATIONAL HEALTH SPENDING CONTINUES TO CLIMB REPORTS HEALTH AFFAIRS
WASHINGTON, July 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Spending for health care in the United States totaled nearly $540 billion in 1988, a group of researchers from the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) reports in the Summer 1990 issue of Health Affairs.
This spending accounted for 11.1 percent of the gross national product, up from 10.8 percent in 1987 and more than twice the share it occupied in 1960. The $540 billion figure translates into $2,124 per capita in the United States.
Of this amount, HCFA economists Katharine Levit, Mark Freeland, and Dan Waldo state, 89 percent was for ...