Number: RL31094
Title: Health Care Spending: Past Trends and Projections
Authors: Paulette C. Morgan, Domestic Social Policy Division 
Abstract: This report focuses on trends in personal health care spending, which includes spending on health care goods and services provided to individuals and excludes expenditures for administrative costs, research, and public health activities. Personal health care expenditures have grown considerably over the past 40 years.
Pages: 9
Date: June 17, 2005