Table 3. Personal health care expenditures, by age, source of funds, and type of service: United States, calendar year 1987.
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| Total | Medicare | Medicaid | Total | Medicare | Medicaid | |||||
| Aggregate amount in billions | ||||||||||
| Personal health care | $447.0 | $271.8 | $175.3 | $81.2 | $49.4 | $51.9 | $38.1 | $13.8 | $0.1 | $8.9 |
| Hospital care | 194.7 | 92.6 | 102.2 | 53.3 | 17.8 | 21.2 | 12.9 | 8.3 | 0.0 | 5.2 |
| Physicians' services | 102.7 | 70.9 | 31.8 | 22.3 | 4.4 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 2.1 | 0.0 | 1.4 |
| Nursing home care | 40.6 | 20.6 | 19.9 | 0.6 | 17.8 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.7 |
| Other personal health care | 109.0 | 87.6 | 21.4 | 5.1 | 9.4 | 17.3 | 14.6 | 2.7 | 0.0 | 1.6 |
| Per capita amount | ||||||||||
| Personal health care | $1,776 | $1,079 | $696 | $323 | $196 | $745 | $547 | $198 | $1 | $128 |
| Hospital care | 773 | 368 | 406 | 212 | 71 | 305 | 186 | 119 | 1 | 74 |
| Physicians' services | 408 | 282 | 126 | 89 | 18 | 181 | 151 | 30 | 0 | 20 |
| Nursing home care | 161 | 82 | 79 | 2 | 71 | 11 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Other personal health care | 433 | 348 | 85 | 20 | 37 | 248 | 210 | 39 | 0 | 24 |
| 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 | 43.6 | 34.1 | 58.3 | 65.6 | 36.0 | 40.9 | 33.9 | 60.3 | 60.5 | 58.0 |
| Physicians' services | 23.0 | 26.1 | 18.1 | 27.4 | 9.0 | 24.3 | 27.6 | 15.0 | 17.7 | 15.8 |
| Nursing home care | 9.1 | 7.6 | 11.4 | 0.7 | 36.1 | 1.5 | 0.1 | 5.1 | 0.0 | 7.7 |
| Other personal health care | 24.4 | 32.2 | 12.2 | 6.3 | 19.0 | 33.3 | 38.3 | 19.6 | 21.9 | 18.4 |
| Percent distribution by source of funds | ||||||||||
| Personal health care | 100.0 | 60.8 | 39.2 | 18.2 | 11.0 | 100.0 | 73.5 | 26.5 | 0.1 | 17.2 |
| Hospital care | 100.0 | 47.5 | 52.5 | 27.4 | 9.1 | 100.0 | 60.9 | 39.1 | 0.2 | 24.4 |
| Physicians' services | 100.0 | 69.1 | 30.9 | 21.7 | 4.3 | 100.0 | 83.6 | 16.4 | 0.1 | 11.2 |
| Nursing home care | 100.0 | 50.9 | 49.1 | 1.4 | 43.9 | 100.0 | 7.3 | 92.7 | 0.0 | 91.7 |
| Other personal health care | 100.0 | 80.4 | 19.6 | 4.7 | 8.6 | 100.0 | 84.4 | 15.6 | 0.1 | 9.5 |
| Aggregate amount in billions | ||||||||||
| Personal health care | $233.1 | $173.0 | $60.0 | $8.9 | $21.0 | $162.0 | $60.6 | $101.5 | $72.2 | $19.5 |
| Hospital care | 105.5 | 69.6 | 36.0 | 5.9 | 9.2 | 67.9 | 10.1 | 57.9 | 47.3 | 3.3 |
| Physicians' services | 56.7 | 48.5 | 8.2 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 33.5 | 11.9 | 21.6 | 20.3 | 0.5 |
| Nursing home care | 7.0 | 1.4 | 5.6 | 0.0 | 5.2 | 32.8 | 19.2 | 13.6 | 0.6 | 11.9 |
| Other personal health care | 63.9 | 53.5 | 10.4 | 1.0 | 4.0 | 27.8 | 19.5 | 8.3 | 4.1 | 3.7 |
| Per capita amount | ||||||||||
| Personal health care | $1,535 | $1,139 | $395 | $59 | $138 | $5,360 | $2,004 | $3,356 | $2,390 | $644 |
| Hospital care | 695 | 458 | 237 | 39 | 61 | 2,248 | 333 | 1,915 | 1,566 | 110 |
| Physicians' services | 373 | 319 | 54 | 13 | 17 | 1,107 | 393 | 714 | 671 | 17 |
| Nursing home care | 46 | 9 | 37 | 0 | 34 | 1,085 | 634 | 452 | 19 | 395 |
| Other personal health care | 421 | 353 | 68 | 7 | 26 | 920 | 644 | 276 | 135 | 123 |
| 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 | 40.2 | 59.9 | 66.0 | 44.1 | 41.9 | 16.6 | 57.1 | 65.5 | 17.1 |
| Physicians' services | 24.3 | 28.0 | 13.6 | 22.6 | 12.1 | 20.7 | 19.6 | 21.3 | 28.1 | 2.6 |
| Nursing home care | 3.0 | 0.8 | 9.3 | 0.2 | 24.7 | 20.2 | 31.6 | 13.5 | 0.8 | 61.2 |
| Other personal health care | 27.4 | 30.9 | 17.2 | 11.1 | 19.1 | 17.2 | 32.2 | 8.2 | 5.6 | 19.1 |
| Percent distribution by source of funds | ||||||||||
| Personal health care | 100.0 | 74.2 | 25.8 | 3.8 | 9.0 | 100.0 | 37.4 | 62.6 | 44.6 | 12.0 |
| Hospital care | 100.0 | 65.9 | 34.1 | 5.6 | 8.8 | 100.0 | 14.8 | 85.2 | 69.7 | 4.9 |
| Physicians' services | 100.0 | 85.6 | 14.4 | 3.6 | 4.5 | 100.0 | 35.5 | 64.5 | 60.6 | 1.5 |
| Nursing home care | 100.0 | 20.6 | 79.4 | 0.3 | 74.1 | 100.0 | 58.4 | 41.6 | 1.7 | 36.4 |
| Other personal health care | 100.0 | 83.8 | 16.2 | 1.6 | 6.3 | 100.0 | 70.0 | 30.0 | 14.7 | 13.3 |
NOTES: Public funds include programs not shown separately. Totals differ from those published elsewhere because of the inclusion of preliminary benchmarked prescription drug figures. 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.