
U.S. Healthcare Spending Is Highly Focused
U.S. health care spending is highly focused on the costliest patients.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0209_healthcare_spending_focused
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U.S. health care spending is highly focused on the costliest patients.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0209_healthcare_spending_focused
Projections of federal healthcare spending have improved but are still climbing as a share of the economy.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0200_healthcare_share_econ_proj
Medicaid provides health insurance to low-income Americans. Children make up nearly half of the program’s enrollment, but most spending is directed towards the elderly and disabled.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0093_medicaid_demographics
Elderly and disabled beneficiaries make up a majority of Medicaid spending.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0094_spending_medicaid_beneficiaries
On average, Medicare benefits far exceed taxes over an individual’s lifetime.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0197_Medicare_lifetime_benefits
The percentage of children without health insurance has declined since 1997.
Medical spending increases rapidly with age.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0020_medical-spending-by-age
Hospital expenses are the largest category of Medicare spending, but their share has fallen over time.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0089_composition_medicare_payments
Medicare covers more than 40 percent of the nation's home health care bills and more than 20 percent of most other health services.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0092_medicare_share_costs
Medicaid finances about one-third of all home health and nursing home care spending in the United States.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0095_medicaid_home_health