ISSUE GUIDES: Health Care

GET THE FACTS

  • Health care spending rising
  • Growth in health care spending
  • Private vs. public expenditures on health care
  • Government, private insurance costs increasing
  • Where health dollars go
  • Medicaid spending continues to rise
  • Medicaid: recipients and expenditures
  • Medicaid enrollment growth
  • Percentage of Americans without health insurance
  • Lack of health insurance coverage, by age
  • Lack of health insurance coverage, by race
  • Lack of health insurance coverage, by income
  • Uninsured children by family work status
  • Uninsured children by family income
  • State-by-state health insurance coverage rates
  • HMO enrollment declining after record rise
  • Increasing life expectancy
  • Long-term care needs
  • New U.S. AIDS cases static after decline
  • U.S. AIDS deaths decreasing