National health expenditures, 1979.
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TL;DR
This latest report in the annual series representing national health expenditures provides detailed estimates of health care spending by type of service and method of financing.
Abstract
Outlays for health care in the nation reached $212.2 billion in calender year 1979--12.5 percent higher than in 1978, according to preliminary figures compiled by the Health Care Financing Administration. This estimate represented $943 per person in the United States and was equal to 9.0 percent of the Gross National Product. This latest report in the annual series representing national health expenditures provides detailed estimates of health care spending by type of service and method of financing.