To the .majority of people interest in Social Insurance begins and ends in stamping cards for their employees, and that interest does not appear to be sufficiently enterprising or inquisitive to examine into the objects for which the cards are stamped or into the causes which make the stamping a necessity. I am aware that the members of the Statistical Society give consideration to such importa...

Outlays for health care in the nation reached $212.2 billion in calender year 1979--12.5 percent higher than in 1978, according to preliminary figures compiled by the Health Care Financing Administration. This estimate represented $943 per person in the United States and was equal to 9.0 percent of the Gross National Product. This latest report in the annual series representing national health ...

Growth in health care expenditures slowed to 9.1 percent in 1984, the smallest increase in expenditures in 19 years. Economic forces and emerging structural changes within the health sector played a role in slowing growth. Of the $1,580 per person spent for health care in 1984, 41 percent was financed by public programs; 31 percent by private health insurance; and the remainder by other private...

Under the mandate of the National Common Minimum programme (NCMP) of the UPA Government, health care is one of the 7 thrust areas wherein it is proposed to increase the expenditure in health sector from 0.9 % of GDP to 2-3% of GDP over the next five years. Accordingly, a National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) was launched on 12 'h April 2005 for a period of 7 years (2005-2012), i.e. for two years...