How Our Health Care Expenditures Grow

Source: HCFA, Office of the Actuary, 1998.

Drugs

Home Health Care

Nursing Home Care

Physicians

Hospitals

Average Annual Growth Rates (%)

National Health Expenditures: 12.9% 11.0 8.6 5.0 5.3 6.5 7.5

Personal Health Care: 13.0% 11.0 8.6 4.9 4.9 6.4 7.5

13.9

12.8

15.4

9.2

9.6

3.5

6.6

12.5

7.8

3.2

7.1

7.8

11.2

5.8

5.5

6.4

26.9

18.6

20.3

9.7

7.8

8.2

12.1

9.9

7.6

9.6

9.8

100%

1970-80

1980-90

1990-93

1993-96

1996-98

1998-01

2001-07

Average Annual Growth Rates