Social Insurance and Public Assistance

SOCIAL WELFARE EXPENDITURES Series Bf246–254 745
TABLE Bf232–245 Public expenditures on social welfare – health and medical programs: 1929–1995 Continued
Series Bf232. The sum of series Bf233 and Bf236–240. The estimates for
health and medical programs are derived from the Census of Governments
and the U.S. Budget. They include net public expenditures for hospital and
medical care (after deduction of fee payments), hospital construction, school
health, community and related public health services, and maternal and child
health services. They exclude state and local expenditures for domiciliary care
in institutions other than mental and tuberculosis. They also exclude expenditures
for health and medical services provided in connection with Old-Age,
Survivors, Disability, and Health Insurance, state temporary disability insurance,
workers’ compensation, public assistance, vocational rehabilitation,
and veterans’ and antipoverty programs; these are included in the total expenditures
shown for those programs. Also excluded are international health
activities. Omitted from the health category, but included under education
in Table Bf255–262, are expenditures for medical schools and other health
training institutions.
Series Bf233. The sum of series Bf234–235.
Series Bf235. Includes medical care for military dependents.
Series Bf236. Includes services for disabled children.
Series Bf241. Sums the expenditures listed under other administrative structures,
including expenditures on Medicare, series Bf215; health and medical
benefits under state temporary disability insurance, series Bf222; workers’
compensation health and medical benefits, series Bf224; public assistance
medical payments, series Bf227; veterans’ hospital and medical care, series
Bf249; veterans’ hospital construction, series Bf250; veterans’ medical and
prosthetic research, series Bf251; and vocational rehabilitation spending on
medical services and medical research, series Bf265–266.
Series Bf242. Includes health and medical expenditures under all public programs.
This series is the sum of series Bf232 and Bf241. It is also the sum of
series Bf243–245 (see Bixby 1995, p. 73). When comparing the two sets of
sums, there are some rounding errors in some years. In 1992 through 1994,
there are some discrepancies between the two sums greater than $0.2 million
but smaller than 0.02 percent of the value of the series.
Series Bf243, expenditures on health and medical services. The series is
the sum of expenditures under the following: medicare, series Bf215; state
temporary disability insurance spending on health and medical benefits, series
Bf222; workers’ compensation spending on health and medical care,
series Bf224; public assistance medical payments, series Bf227; hospital and
medical care for civilians, series Bf234; hospital and medical care under the
Defense Department, series Bf235; maternal and child health programs, series
Bf236; other public health activities, series Bf239; veterans’ hospital and
medical care, series Bf249; medical vocational rehabilitation, series Bf265;
and school health expenditures by education agencies (series not listed in
education tables).
Series Bf244, medical research expenditures. The series is the sum of expenditures
under the following: health and medical programs, series Bf237;
veterans’ programs, series Bf251; and vocational rehabilitation, series Bf266.
Series Bf245, medical facilities construction. The series is the sum of spending
under both health and medical programs and veterans’ programs, series
Bf240 and Bf250.
TABLE Bf246–254 Public expenditures on social welfare – veterans’ programs: 1929–1995
Contributed by Price V. Fishback and Melissa A. Thomasson
Health and medical programs
Medical and
Pensions and Hospital and Hospital prosthetic Welfare and
Total compensation Total medical care construction research Education Life insurance other
Bf246 Bf247 Bf248 Bf249 Bf250 Bf251 Bf252 Bf253 Bf254
Year Million dollars Million dollars Million dollars Million dollars Million dollars Million dollars Million dollars Million dollars Million dollars
1929 657.9 434.7 50.9 46.7 4.2 — — 136.4 35.8
1930 667.8 433.4 59.4 50.7 8.6 — — 140.0 35.0
1931 744.3 504.4 68.3 58.7 9.5 — — 137.7 34.0
1932 825.0 562.2 77.8 64.3 13.6 — — 146.0 39.0
1933 818.8 565.0 69.9 55.8 14.1 — — 145.3 38.6
1934 529.5 333.0 42.2 38.9 3.3 — — 124.6 29.8
1935 597.5 386.5 50.8 47.8 3.0 — — 122.8 37.5
1936 3,825.5 411.3 55.1 52.1 3.0 — — 117.7 3,241.4
1937 892.7 1 409.0 62.1 52.8 9.4 — — 113.1 308.4
1938 627.3 415.2 64.6 54.8 9.7 — — 107.8 39.8
1939 606.1 429.7 68.6 57.2 11.5 — — 76.3 31.3
1940 629.0 443.3 75.8 61.5 14.3 — — 77.0 32.9
1941 612.9 448.4 69.9 65.1 4.7 — — 68.7 25.8
1942 645.4 445.7 72.4 68.2 4.2 — — 60.4 67.0
1943 623.3 457.8 75.1 72.3 2.8 — — 67.0 23.3
1944 720.0 513.1 87.0 82.0 5.1 — — 93.7 26.2
1945 1,125.8 766.6 101.8 85.5 16.3 — 9.8 201.2 46.4
1946 2,402.9 1,279.5 243.8 207.9 35.9 — 368.9 376.0 134.7
1947 5,682.5 1,834.4 578.0 411.1 165.6 1.4 2,273.3 440.9 556.0
1948 6,638.2 1,910.6 563.5 531.8 29.1 2.6 2,630.2 433.1 1,100.8
1949 6,926.7 1,980.1 718.2 575.5 138.4 4.3 2,817.9 452.3 958.2
1950 6,865.7 2,092.1 748.0 582.8 161.5 3.7 2,691.6 475.7 858.3
1951 5,996.0 2,113.8 695.8 581.0 109.8 5.0 2,019.3 515.0 652.1
1952 5,255.6 2,183.7 766.7 644.2 118.7 3.9 1,380.7 554.9 369.6
1953 4,734.7 2,448.6 739.2 641.5 92.6 5.1 706.8 538.8 301.4
1954 4,630.9 2,507.1 739.9 680.8 53.8 5.3 596.4 538.1 249.4
Note appears at end of table
(continued)