Table 12. Personal health care expenditures per capita for people 65 years of age or over, by source of funds and type of service: United States, 1984 and 1977.
Year and source of funds | Type of service | ||||
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Total care | Hospital | Physician | Nursing home | Other care | |
1984 | |||||
Total | $4,202 | $1,900 | $868 | $880 | $554 |
Private | 1,379 | 216 | 344 | 457 | 362 |
Consumer | 1,363 | 209 | 344 | 451 | 359 |
Out-of-pocket | 1,059 | 59 | 227 | 441 | 332 |
Insurance | 304 | 150 | 117 | 10 | 27 |
Other private | 16 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 3 |
Government | 2,823 | 1,684 | 524 | 423 | 192 |
Medicare | 2,051 | 1,420 | 502 | 19 | 110 |
Medicaid | 536 | 91 | 16 | 365 | 63 |
Other government | 236 | 172 | 6 | 39 | 19 |
1977 | |||||
Total | 1,785 | 777 | 320 | 440 | 248 |
Private | 644 | 95 | 137 | 223 | 189 |
Consumer | 637 | 93 | 136 | 220 | 188 |
Out-of-pocket | 522 | 38 | 88 | 216 | 180 |
Insurance | 115 | 55 | 48 | 4 | 8 |
Other private | 7 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
Government | 1,141 | 682 | 183 | 217 | 59 |
Medicare | 788 | 579 | 171 | 14 | 24 |
Medicaid | 249 | 30 | 10 | 183 | 26 |
Other government | 104 | 73 | 3 | 19 | 9 |
Less than $.50.
SOURCE: Office of Financial and Actuarial Analysis, Health Care Financing Administration