Annual Report, Health Care Utilization Task Force, 1990

(1990) Annual Report, Health Care Utilization Task Force, 1990. Health and Human Services, Department of

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Abstract

The Health Care Utilization Task Force was appointed by the Iowa Health Data Commission to oversee a utilization of procedures study. The Commission itself was established by the Iowa Legislature in 1983 and given the mission of compiling and disseminating accurate health data, including information on price and usage. It was felt that collection and use of this data would be a stepping-stone for arriving at solutions for needed. Changes in health care delivery and financing, including stimulation of price competition. Creation of the Commission was a response to steadily increasing health care expenditures in the United States. In 1989, health care costs amounted to $599 billion, nearly $2,400 for each person in the country, making up 11.5 percent of the nation's gross national product. By the year 2000, health care spending is projected at $1.5 trillion--that's over $5,500 per person and 15 percent of the country's estimated gross national product. Even allowing for inflation, these figures are a drastic increase from the average $205 spent on each man, woman, and child in the United States for health care during 1965.