how much does the us spend on government employee health care
Federal spending on health care in 2015. The Congressional Budget Office and the Office of Management and Budget estimate that the federal government will spend more than $980 billion on health care in fiscal year 2015 (see table 1).
58% of US community hospitals are non-profit, 21% are government owned, and 21% are for-profit. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the United States spent more on health care per capita ($8,608), and more on health care as percentage of its GDP (17.2%), than any other nation in 2011. study by the National Institutes of Health reported that the lifetime per capita expenditure at birth, using year 2000 dollars, showed a large difference between health care costs of females ($361,192) and males ($268,679).