Mueller M S, Gibson R M
Soc Secur Bull. 1976 Feb;39(2):3-20,48.
According to preliminary estimates of the Nation's health spending in fiscal year 1975, health expenditures reached $118.5 billion, or $547 per person. Total health spending showed a 14-percent rise, significantly higher than the increase in 1974 when price controls in the health industry were in effect for most of the year. The acceleration of health spending during 1975 was accompanied by a slackening in the growth of the gross national product. Expenditures for this purpose, as a share of the GNP, thus rose significantly to 8.3 percent. Public spending grew two and one-half times as fast as private spending in 1975, mainly because of the continuing expansion of Medicare and Medicaid. Third parties financed an estimated two-thirds of all personal health care spending, with the government share 40 percent and that of private insurance 27 percent.
根据对1975财年美国医疗卫生支出的初步估算，医疗卫生支出达1185亿美元，人均547美元。医疗卫生总支出增长了14%，显著高于1974年，当时医疗卫生行业的价格管制在当年大部分时间内有效。1975年医疗卫生支出的加速增长伴随着国民生产总值增长的放缓。因此，用于这一目的的支出占国民生产总值的比例大幅升至8.3%。1975年公共支出的增长速度是私人支出的两倍半，主要原因是医疗保险和医疗补助的持续扩大。第三方支付了所有个人医疗保健支出的约三分之二，其中政府占40%，私人保险占27%。
