TABLE 1—

Tax-Financed Health Expenditures (Billions of Dollars): United States, 2013–2024

Expenditure	2013	2014	2015	2020	2024
Total national health expenditures	2919	3080	3244	4274	5425
Direct government health expendituresa
Medicare	585.7	616.8	646.0	905.7	1221.3
Medicaid or Children’s Health Insurance Program	462.9	517.0	559.6	728.6	914.6
Other health programs	345.9	353.5	366.0	485.1	611.3
Government expenditures for public employees’ health benefits
Federal government	32	33	34	40	49
State or local governments	156	169	177	239	307
Tax subsidies for private employer–paid health insurance and other privately paid care
Federal government	249.2	262.7	276.4	345.9	453.2
State or local governments	45.7	47.4	49.8	63.5	85.7
Total tax-financed expenditures	1877.4	1999.4	2108.8	2807.8	3642.1
Tax-financed expenditures as a percentage of total national health expenditures, %	64.3	64.9	65.0	65.7	67.1

Note. Figures for 2013 are based on actual expenditures; 2014–2024 are based on Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and Office of Management and Budget projections.

^aEquivalent to traditional Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services tabulation of government’s share of expenditures.