Over the past five years, hospital care has been the largest spending category, representing about 30 percent of annual healthcare expenditures.

*Projected by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

**Other spending includes dental services, other professional services, durable medical products, over-the-counter medicines and sundries, public health activities, research and construction, and government administration and net costs of private health insurance.

Source: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (2006)