8 B.C. LUMBER WORKER ; Ist Issue December

ur Health Dollar :

Who spent what on health care TABLE 1 :
Estimated average expenditure per family unit with expenditures for particular items, by size of family unit
All 1 2 3.4 5-6 Tplus
Sizes pers. pers. ‘pers. pers. pers.
Average of total expenditures oc... 95.00 52.80 91.00 11290 11650 108.00’
INCOME ; PET eae at
GROUPS Medical care 31.00 19.40 30.10 33.80 34.90 29.90
| Hospital care... 28:50 18.70 30.20 31.40 31.60 3110
$5000 ¢ over Combined plans ........ : 45.00 29.80 44.60 48.10 50.80 49.30
‘Average of expenditures
made directly for:
Services —
Physicians’ services cc 36.60 25,00 38.60 38.80 37.80 39.20
Hospital care 68.10 87.30 84:70 60.70 65.20 50.70
Dental services 26.20 21°50 26.80 28.30 25:30 20.60
Eye services ic. 7 22i00 17.20 23:30 21.40 23:50 27.20
Nursing care——home ia 4si70) 78.40 95.90 18.40 27.10 12:70
—hospital SS e370 «= 15430-11940 79:30 28.80 33.10
Combined bills... eae = S020) 71.40 83.40 61.60 27.00
Drugs and appliances—
Medicine — prescribed ... 18.50 14.80 22.40 17.90 17.40 20.30
— not prescribed 9:40 750 8.50 9:00 11.60 13.80
Appliances and equipment 8.80 6.70 TSO ee BC 6.60 6.50
Other : 222170 28.70 26.50 20.40 16.70 19.80
NOTE: Amounts do not add to totals shown, due to many cases of expenditure by one family unit for several items.
Source: DBS and Department of National Health and Welfare Canadian Sickness Survey, 1950-51, Special Compilation: No, 1.
Under $4500 ;
Bottom 291 spent 16%]. ,

Expenditures on health care, i9s051

THE HEALTH| DOLLAR

How it Is spent

fiddiit

Prepayment
lans
24]

Hospital Care

Medicine
19%]

THE BEST —

that money can buy

ie TABLE 2
Estimated expenditures, family units, and average expenditures, by income group
Income Groups e. Less $1,500 $3,000 $5,000
: No than to to ‘ond
Total expenditures ups income = «$1,500 «$2,999 «$4,999 over

(millions of dollars) ....
Total family units

(in thousands) 2)
Total family units with expenditures
* (in thousands) .... Si
Average expenditure per family unit «

(in dollars) ...
Average expenditure per family unit

with .expenditure for any item

(in dollars) 56.10 5810 95.90 122.00 163,80 ‘109.30
* The report states: “While some of the family units in this group had no actual cash income, others are believed to have had small Income:
which were not reported.’
Source: Same os Table 1.

3.4 61.6 165.0 97.2 43.0

214 -1,322——«‘1,864 833 271

61 -'1,061_~—‘1,720 797 262

15.90 46.60 88.50 116,80 158.70 71.30

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Estimated average expenditure per family unit and percent of totat expenditures for certain items, by income group| No. 6401

; A Prepay- Physi- Hos-

family it ele

units Total plane. (1) feito lea Beate) ses aeetn Re eM oe
All i 4,555,000 $82.10 23.6% 235% AY D
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$1,500 - $2,999 .. 1,864,000 88.50 24.9 24.5 12.2 8.0 37 i 0. (B.0.) U1). _—$_—_—___
3,000- $4,999 833,000 116.80 28:0 Pb NT NOK eS See > eae
$5,000 or more 271,000 158,70 23.0 FS DS TOG B53

2248-50 €. HASTINGS ST. VANCOUVER

(1) Includes Medical core, Hospital core and Combined plans,
(2)includes Nursing care-—home and hospital, Combined bills, Appliances and equipment, and Other.

Source: Some as Toble 1, but Special Compilation No, 2.