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14 Cards in this Set
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1970-1990 Hospitals
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Hospitals receive 40 percent of healthcare expenditures
1998 is 33 percent because of decrease in inpatient services |
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Physicians
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MD and DO receive 20 percent of healthcare costs
remains steady because of broad license |
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Others (Allied Health Services)
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1960 = 2.8 percent
1998 = 5.8 percent Nurse Practitioners |
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Nursing Homes
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1960 = 3.2 percent
1998 = 7.6 percent more nursing homes, more nursing beds |
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Bed availability ratio
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1976 = 681 beds per 1000 over 85 years
1998 = 447 beds per 1000 pop over 85 years |
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Major International Drug Corporations
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1960 = 15.8 percent
1985 = 8.6 percent 1998 = 10.6 percent Why? Elderly 13 percent of the population 42 percent of drug expenditures |
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Increase in percent spent on health services
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Increase in per capital spending
Increase in total federal spending Relationship to cost of medical care |
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HMOS
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capitate per patient not like the old days per treatment and procedure
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Who pays for healthcare expenditures?
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34 percent are paid by households
26 percent by business 2.5 percent non-patient revenues 37 percent by public payors |
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Households
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Out of Pocket spending > 50 percent
All the trust funds, supplemental insurance and premiums |
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Private Business
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[range from lowest to highest]
In house health services workmans compensation medicare private health insurance premiums |
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Non patient revenues, who pays?
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Philanthropists and Donations
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The public payors
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56 percent paid by the federal government
44 percent paid by the state and local employees health |
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Changing the health care system is TOUGH
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-Huge advances in science = -huge advances in costs,
-slight decreases, in giving out equals huge in making people pay out of pocket expenditures referendum, voter perspective? increased quality for decreased costs; little incentive to vote FOR change. |
