Americans spend comparatively low on health care than other spending. The American Association of Physicians and Surgeons newsletter has disclosed that spending rates of 1927 and 1987 by American people on different necessity of life. mercola.com has cited the newsletter.
1917 1987
Food 41% 19%
Housing 27% 34%
Transportation 3% 26%
Clothing 18% 6%
Health Care 5% 4%
The figures itself reveal the reducing importance of health care for most of the Americans.
Earlier, a federal government report had given the details of health spending. It had said that per capita health care expense would go up by twenty percent in the year 2015. Presently the rate is fifteen per cent. Both the report is contradictory but one thing is sure that the health care expense is not up to the mark in the US.
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