Table 2. Personal health care expenditures, by age, source of funds, and type of service: United States, calendar year 1977.
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| Total | Medicare | Medicaid | Total | Medicare | Medicaid | |||||
| Aggregate amount in billions | ||||||||||
| Personal health care | $150.3 | $92.6 | $57.8 | $21.8 | $16.9 | $19.5 | $14.4 | $5.2 | $0.0 | $3.0 |
| Hospital care | 68.1 | 31.6 | 36.5 | 16.0 | 6.5 | 7.7 | 4.6 | 3.1 | 0.0 | 1.6 |
| Physicians' services | 31.9 | 23.8 | 8.1 | 4.6 | 1.8 | 4.5 | 3.7 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.6 |
| Nursing home care | 13.0 | 5.8 | 7.2 | 0.4 | 6.2 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| Other personal health care | 37.3 | 31.3 | 6.0 | 0.8 | 2.4 | 7.0 | 6.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 |
| Per capita amount | ||||||||||
| Personal health care | $658 | $405 | $253 | $95 | $74 | $269 | $198 | $71 | $0 | $41 |
| Hospital care | 298 | 138 | 160 | 70 | 28 | 106 | 63 | 42 | 0 | 22 |
| Physicians' services | 139 | 104 | 35 | 20 | 8 | 63 | 52 | 11 | 0 | 8 |
| Nursing home care | 57 | 26 | 32 | 2 | 27 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Other personal health care | 163 | 137 | 26 | 3 | 10 | 97 | 82 | 14 | 0 | 7 |
| Percent distribution by type of service | ||||||||||
| Personal health care | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 |
| Hospital care | 45.3 | 34.2 | 63.2 | 73.6 | 38.4 | 39.3 | 32.1 | 59.2 | 58.8 | 54.4 |
| Physicians' services | 21.2 | 25.7 | 14.0 | 21.1 | 10.9 | 23.3 | 26.1 | 15.4 | 12.2 | 19.2 |
| Nursing home care | 8.7 | 6.3 | 12.5 | 1.7 | 36.6 | 1.7 | 0.2 | 5.7 | 0.0 | 9.5 |
| Other personal health care | 24.8 | 33.9 | 10.4 | 3.6 | 14.0 | 35.9 | 41.7 | 19.8 | 29.0 | 16.9 |
| Percent distribution by source of funds | ||||||||||
| Personal health care | 100.0 | 61.6 | 38.4 | 14.5 | 11.2 | 100.0 | 73.5 | 26.5 | 0.1 | 15.3 |
| Hospital care | 100.0 | 46.4 | 53.6 | 23.5 | 9.5 | 100.0 | 60.1 | 39.9 | 0.2 | 21.3 |
| Physicians' services | 100.0 | 74.6 | 25.4 | 14.4 | 5.8 | 100.0 | 82.4 | 17.6 | 0.1 | 12.7 |
| Nursing home care | 100.0 | 44.8 | 55.2 | 2.8 | 47.3 | 100.0 | 8.9 | 91.1 | 0.0 | 88.2 |
| Other personal health care | 100.0 | 84.0 | 16.0 | 2.1 | 6.3 | 100.0 | 85.4 | 14.6 | 0.1 | 7.2 |
| Aggregate amount in billions | ||||||||||
| Personal health care | $85.6 | $62.3 | $23.2 | $2.6 | $6.8 | $45.2 | $15.9 | $29.3 | $19.1 | $7.0 |
| Hospital care | 40.2 | 24.6 | 15.6 | 1.9 | 3.5 | 20.2 | 2.4 | 17.8 | 14.1 | 1.4 |
| Physicians' services | 19.5 | 16.8 | 2.7 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 7.8 | 3.2 | 4.6 | 4.1 | 0.3 |
| Nursing home care | 2.2 | 0.8 | 1.4 | 0.0 | 1.3 | 10.5 | 5.0 | 5.5 | 0.3 | 4.6 |
| Other personal health care | 23.6 | 20.1 | 3.5 | 0.2 | 1.1 | 6.7 | 5.2 | 1.5 | 0.6 | 0.7 |
| Per capita amount | ||||||||||
| Personal health care | $651 | $474 | $177 | $20 | $52 | $1,856 | $653 | $1,204 | $785 | $288 |
| Hospital care | 306 | 187 | 119 | 15 | 26 | 830 | 98 | 732 | 578 | 57 |
| Physicians' services | 148 | 128 | 21 | 4 | 8 | 319 | 132 | 187 | 169 | 10 |
| Nursing home care | 17 | 6 | 11 | 0 | 10 | 432 | 207 | 224 | 14 | 190 |
| Other personal health care | 179 | 153 | 27 | 2 | 8 | 275 | 215 | 60 | 23 | 31 |
| Percent distribution by type of service | ||||||||||
| Personal health care | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 |
| Hospital care | 47.0 | 39.5 | 67.1 | 73.6 | 50.6 | 44.7 | 15.1 | 60.8 | 73.6 | 19.7 |
| Physicians' services | 22.8 | 27.0 | 11.7 | 18.1 | 14.8 | 17.2 | 20.2 | 15.5 | 21.6 | 3.6 |
| Nursing home care | 2.6 | 1.2 | 6.2 | 0.5 | 18.4 | 23.2 | 31.7 | 18.6 | 1.8 | 66.0 |
| Other personal health care | 27.6 | 32.3 | 15.0 | 7.8 | 16.2 | 14.8 | 33.0 | 5.0 | 3.0 | 10.6 |
| Percent distribution by source of funds | ||||||||||
| Personal health care | 100.0 | 72.8 | 27.2 | 3.1 | 8.0 | 100.0 | 35.1 | 64.9 | 42.3 | 15.5 |
| Hospital care | 100.0 | 61.2 | 38.8 | 4.8 | 8.6 | 100.0 | 11.8 | 88.2 | 69.6 | 6.8 |
| Physicians' services | 100.0 | 86.1 | 13.9 | 2.4 | 5.2 | 100.0 | 41.4 | 58.6 | 53.0 | 3.3 |
| Nursing home care | 100.0 | 34.6 | 65.4 | 0.6 | 57.0 | 100.0 | 48.0 | 52.0 | 3.3 | 44.0 |
| Other personal health care | 100.0 | 85.2 | 14.8 | 0.9 | 4.7 | 100.0 | 78.2 | 21.8 | 8.5 | 11.1 |
NOTES: Public funds include programs not shown separately. Hospital care and physicians' services include both inpatient and outpatient care.
SOURCE: Health Care Financing Administration, Office of the Actuary: Data from the Office of National Cost Estimates.