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Health Expenditures by Sponsors: Business, household and government Measures of spending by sponsors—business, households and government—were developed in the late 1980s in response to and concern over the escalating cost of healthcare premiums paid by businesses and rising health care costs in general. The current presentation of health care spending provided in Financing Health Care: Businesses, Households and Governments, 1987-2003 takes a look at the underlying financers of health care. Additionally, selected tables have been updated on the web for 2005 to be consistent with the latest NHE estimates and methodologies. These estimates are derived from estimates contained in the National Health Expenditure Accounts (NHEA). While the NHEA record sources of funds as specific public programs, private insurance, out-of-pocket payments and philanthropic funds that directly pay health care bills, estimates of spending by sponsor organizes spending according to the underlying entity financing the health care bill payer – businesses, households and governments. This structure allows an examination of burden measures that help identify pressure points behind rising health care costs.
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