Polsky Daniel, Grande David
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
LDI Issue Brief. 2009 Jul;14(5):1-4.
Health care spending represents a growing share of our national income, and based on current projections, will increase from 16% of the gross domestic product today to 20% by 2018. What does this mean for typical working families with private health insurance, who shoulder the financial burden of maintaining the current system? In this Issue Brief, Polsky and Grande construct a typical health care budget for working families of various income levels, calculate the percentage of total compensation devoted to health care over time, and project how rising health care costs will affect standards of living in the future. Their findings remind us that what works today also has to work tomorrow. Sustainability depends critically on successful cost containment.
医疗保健支出在国民收入中所占的份额越来越大，根据目前的预测，将从如今占国内生产总值的16%增长到2018年的20%。这对于承担着维持当前体系财务负担的、拥有私人医疗保险的普通工薪家庭而言意味着什么？在本期简报中，波斯基和格兰德为不同收入水平的工薪家庭构建了一份典型的医疗保健预算，计算了随着时间推移用于医疗保健的总薪酬百分比，并预测不断上涨的医疗保健成本将如何影响未来的生活水平。他们的研究结果提醒我们，今天行之有效的措施明天也必须行之有效。可持续性严重依赖于成功的成本控制。
