Levit K R, Cowan C A, Lazenby H C, McDonnell P A, Sensenig A L, Stiller J M, Won D K
National Health Accounts Branch, Office of National Health Statistics, Health Care Financing Administration, Baltimore.
Health Aff (Millwood). 1994 Winter;13(5):14-31. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.13.5.14.
In 1993 the nation spent $884.2 billion on health care, a 7.8 percent increase from 1992. Although this spending growth was among the lowest rates of growth recorded since 1960, it is too soon to tell whether slower growth in health spending is a new trend or merely a temporary perturbation in the long-term trend. The portion of the economy devoted to health care increased from 13.6 percent in 1992 to 13.9 percent in 1993--a 0.3 percentage point increase that equaled the average rate of increase recorded since 1960. The federal government's share of the total health care bill rose between 1991 and 1993, the first significant change in the share of the nation's health care bill funded by the federal government since the early 1970s.
1993年，美国在医疗保健方面的支出为8842亿美元，比1992年增长了7.8%。尽管这一支出增长是自1960年以来有记录的最低增长率之一，但现在判断医疗支出增长放缓是一种新趋势还是仅仅是长期趋势中的暂时波动还为时过早。用于医疗保健的经济份额从1992年的13.6%增至1993年的13.9%，增长了0.3个百分点，这一增幅等同于自1960年以来的平均增长率。1991年至1993年期间，联邦政府在医疗保健总费用中的份额有所上升，这是自20世纪70年代初以来，联邦政府资助的全国医疗保健费用份额的首次重大变化。
