Focus on Prices and Spending | Consumer Expenditure

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Focus on Prices and Spending, Consumer Expenditure, Volume 2, Number 8

Chart 1. Average health insurance and prescription drug shares of total health care spending by Medicare households, 2005–2009
Item	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Health insurance	58.3	62.9	66.2	66.6	66.1
Prescription drugs	20.7	17.8	15.5	14.5	14.0