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Special ArticleMedical Care: Its Social and Organizational AspectsFree PreviewArchive

Expenditures for Health and Medical Care in the United States

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  • Cecil G. Sheps, M.D., M.P.H.*,
  • and Dean A. Clark, M.D.†

EXPENDITURES for health and medical care in the United States are sizable, as is well known. In this review an attempt will be made to define the principal characteristics of these expenditures and the trends that they have shown in recent years. Special attention will be given to expenditures for medical care as an aspect of public assistance. The discussion is limited to expenditures for medical care as distinguished from the true "costs of illness." In other words, we present data about amounts spent from various sources for health services without any effort to assess the economic loss to the . . .

Author Affiliations

PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA

*Professor of medical and hospital administration, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh.

†Research professor of medical and hospital administration, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh.

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