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Health Expenditures/trends , Medicaid/statistics & numerical data , Medicare/statistics & numerical data , Forecasting , Health Expenditures/statistics & numerical data , Medicaid/organization & administration , Medicare/organization & administration , Organizational Innovation , United StatesABSTRACT
In this article, the authors present a scenario for health expenditures during the 1990s. Assuming that current laws and practices remain unchanged, the Nation will spend $1.6 trillion for health care in the year 2000, an amount equal to 16.4 percent of that year's gross national product. Medicare and Medicaid will foot an increasing share of the Nation's health bill, rising to more than one-third of the total. The factors accounting for growth in national health spending are described as well as the effects of those factors on spending by type of service and by source of funds.
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Forecasting , Health Expenditures/trends , Models, Econometric , Actuarial Analysis , Data Collection , Drug Costs/trends , Health Expenditures/statistics & numerical data , Health Workforce/trends , Hospitals, Community/economics , Medicaid/statistics & numerical data , Medicare/statistics & numerical data , Nursing Homes/economics , Personal Health Services/economics , United StatesABSTRACT
Contained in this regular feature of the journal is a section on each of the following five topics: community hospital statistics; employment, hours, and earnings in the private health sector; health care prices; hospital skill mix changes: 1980s; and national economic indicators.
