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Health Comparisons
Health Care Spending - 2006
Hospital Care
31% of total health care expenditures
$648.2 billion
Physician Payment
21% of total health care expenditures
$447.6 billion
Growth from inc. office visits and imaging
Health Care Spending - 2006
Prescription drugs
10% of total expenditures
Total: $216.7 billion *
greater than nursing homes and home
health care combined ($177.6 billion)
Medicare
$401.3 billion
19% of national health expenditures
Revenue
65% from payroll taxes and premiums
35% from general taxes
Key: this competes with Gov. spending
Health Care Spending - 2006
Medicaid
$310.6 billion
15% of national health expenditures
> 20% state budgets
SCHIP
$ 8 billion
Federal Government pays over 46% Health care bills
Federal Budget 2008
Social Security
1935 Medicare Clinton
Progressive Era
Germany 1965 1994 Medicare
1910 - 17 Truman Plan
1883 Nixon Drug Bill
1945 1970s 2003
Machiavelli 1513
What Glasses Are You Looking Through?
Every System is Perfectly Designed To
Produce The Results It Produces
Don Berwick, MD
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Here we go again.