IOM Recommends U.S. Tax Medical Care To Finance Improvements To Public Health Services

According to the Institute of Medicine (IOM), to finance improvements in public health services the federal government should double how much it spends on public health and to finance this additional spending, the United States federal government should tax on medical care services. Currently, federal spending on public health is about $11.6 billion per year; the IOM recommended that federal spending on public health increase to about $24 billion. In 2009 the $11.6 billion represented only 3.1% of the total national health expenditure, or about $251 per person in public health spending compared with $8,086 per . . .