Health Expenditures

(Data are for the U.S.)

 

• Health expenditures: $2.3 trillion (2008)
• Health expenditures as a percent of Gross Domestic Product: 16.2% (2008)
• Percent of health expenditures using public funds: 47.3% (2008)

Source: Health, United States, 2010, table 122 [PDF - 9.4 MB]

• Percent of health expenditures for hospital care: 30.7% (2008)
• Percent of health expenditures for nursing home care: 5.9% (2008)
• Percent of health expenditures for physician and clinical services: 21.2% (2008)
• Percent of health expenditures for prescription drugs: 10.0% (2008)

Source: Health, United States, 2010, table 125 [PDF - 9.4 MB]

 

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