Show For SPECIAL TO Compared with people in other areas of the how much are Davis County residents paying per year for health HOW LARGE are their personal out-of-pocket expenditures for hospital and other health over and above the portion of their bills covered by Because the cost of medical care is a matter of major a special study was conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics to determine how big a burden it represents for families in various sections of the THE ONLY other full scale study of this kind that it has made was in Since that it an increasing proportion of these expenses are being paid through insurance through medicare and through other government Despite because medical costs have zoomed in recent the consumer is left with bigger bills to pay than ever IN DAVIS County's regional the figures some percent of the population incurred no medical expenses at all in the Of the percent had no more than to The out-of-pocket costs for the area as a whole came to per Included in this amount were insurance premiums ELSEWHERE in the United the expenditures were a little per It broke down to for for for prescription for hospital for optical expenses and the rest for miscellaneous health equipment and THE COST per individual ranged from considerably less than the average to considerably It varied from area to area and from family to Age was an important In the local for the cost was only for those under 17 but rose to for people over THE TOTAL out-of-pocket for every woman and child in Davis came to approximately in the it is |