Stagnitti Marie N., Carper Kelly
This Statistical Brief presents estimates of the percentage of persons with any health care expense for the U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized population, based on the Household Component of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS-HC) for the years 1996 through 2012. Estimates are shown separately for the non-elderly and elderly populations. Average and median expense per person with an expense are also included. In order to examine growth in expenses after accounting for inflation (i.e., real expenses), all dollar amounts for 1996 to 2011 are inflated to 2012 dollars based on the GDP Price Indexhttp://www.meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/about_meps/Price_Index.shtml. All differences between estimates discussed in the text are statistically significant at the 0.05 level.
本统计简报基于1996年至2012年医疗支出面板调查的家庭部分（MEPS - HC），呈现了美国非机构化平民人口中产生任何医疗保健费用的人群百分比估计值。估计值分别针对非老年人口和老年人口列出。还包括了有费用支出人群的人均平均费用和中位数费用。为了考察考虑通货膨胀后的费用增长情况（即实际费用），根据国内生产总值价格指数（http://www.meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/about_meps/Price_Index.shtml），将1996年至2011年的所有美元金额换算为2012年的美元金额。文中讨论的估计值之间的所有差异在0.05水平上具有统计学显著性。
