Explaining Health Care to a Friend

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Tues. 12/06/26 19:44 EDT
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@Phi est aureum

[/url]I have another request. I’m having trouble finding the most recent data on healthcare spending (total amount, as percentage of GDP, percentage paid by federal and state governments, etc.)

This isn’t exactly what you requested, but it might be of use:

Major categories of FY (Fiscal Year) 2011 spending included: Medicare & Medicaid ($835B or 24%), …

and

Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security grew from 4.3% of GDP in 1971 to 8.4% of GDP in 2010.

See also United States federal budget.

yahoo.com search keywords: medicare spending gdp usa