National Health Expenditures

National health expenditures represent the amount spent on health care and related activities such as private and public health insurance, health research, and public health activities (1). Personal health care expenditures—which account for the largest shares of total national health expenditures— are outlays for goods and services relating directly to patient care, such as hospital care, physicians’ and dentists’ services, prescription drugs, eyeglasses, and nursing home care. [https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus/topics/health-care-expenditures.htm#:~:text=Health%20Care%20Expenditures-,Health%20Care%20Expenditures,public%20health%20activities%20(1)](https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus/topics/health-care-expenditures.htm).