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Median Out-of-Pocket Health Care Spending As a Percent of Income Among Medicare Beneficiaries, 1997-2006 Download Source Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of CMS Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey Cost and Use files, 1997-2006.
Out-of-Pocket Health Care Spending As a Percent of Income Among Medicare Beneficiaries, By Spending Percentile, 1997-2006 Download Source Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of CMS Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey Cost and Use files, 1997-2006.
Part B and Part D Out-of-Pocket Spending as a Share of Average Social Security Benefit, 1970-2010 Download Source Kaiser Family Foundation analysis based on data from 2012 Annual Report of the Boards of Trustees of the Federal Hospital Insurance and Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Funds.
Distribution of Average Household Spending by Medicare and Non-Medicare Households, 2010 Download Source Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of the Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Expenditure Survey Interview and Expense Files, 2010.
Medicare as a Share of the Federal Budget, 2012 Download Source Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Medicare Baseline, May 2013.
Projected Medicare Spending, 2013-2023 Download Source Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Medicare Baseline, May 2013.
Medicare as a share of Federal Budget Outlays, and as a share of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), 1990-2020 Download Source CBO Budget and Economic Outlook, January 2011 (for 1990-2010 data) and May 2013 (for 2020 data).
Medicare Benefit Payments By Type of Service, 2012 Download Source Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Medicare Baseline, May 2013.
Medicare’s Share of National Personal Health Expenditures, by Type of Service, 2012 Download Source Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Office of the Actuary, National Health Expenditure Projections 2011-2021, June 2012.
Distribution of Traditional Medicare Beneficiaries and Medicare Spending, 2009 Download Source Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of the CMS Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey Cost and Use File, 2009.
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