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Health Care Spending: Nonpolicy Factors Account for Most State Differences

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Feb. 13, 1992
Report No. HRD-92-36
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Summary:

As it absorbs more and more of the national income, health care spending in the United States is coming under increasing scrutiny. Personal health care expenditures in this country totalled $585 billion, or $2,255 per capita, in 1990. Personal health care represented 10.7 percent of the U.S. gross national product in 1990, compared with 6.4 percent in 1970. To better understand what drives U.S. health care spending, this report determines the (1) per capita spending for health services in each state, (2) reasons for the differences in spending levels from one state to the next, and (3) extent to which state cost-containment policies have contributed to lowered health spending.

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