California Health Care Foundation

This quick reference guide provides an overview of US health care spending in 2019.

This set of quality measures focuses on children's health.

This set of quality measures highlights California’s performance across a range of chronic conditions, including cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and respiratory disease.

US health spending reached $3.6 trillion in 2018. National health spending grew 4.6% in 2018, a slightly higher rate than the 4.2% growth in 2017.

Over the past 60 years, the way health care is financed has changed, with public insurance paying for more care. This graphic shows who paid for health care and how much it cost.

This set of quality measures focuses on maternal health and childbirth.

This set of quality measures focuses on behavioral health, including mental health and substance use.

This set of quality measures focuses on providers, including ambulatory surgery centers, emergency departments, inpatient hospitals, nursing homes, home health care, and hospice.

National health spending grew by 3.9% in 2017, slower than the 4.8% growth in 2016. This Almanac report, Health Care Costs 101: Spending Keeps Growing, details how much is spent on health care in the US, which services are purchased, and who pays.

This set of quality measures focuses on children's health and includes vaccination rates, rates of obesity and being overweight, and preventable hospital admissions.

California is the most racially diverse state in the country, and addressing health disparities experienced by people of color is critically important. This Almanac report shows that people of color face barriers to accessing health care, often receive suboptimal treatment, and are most likely to experience poor outcomes in the health care system.

This set of quality measures highlights California’s performance across a range of chronic conditions, including cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and respiratory disease, and includes data by race/ethnicity, payer, and county.

While California continues to make progress on the quality of care provided to women during their pregnancies and deliveries, there is room for improvement.

Health spending in California totaled $292 billion in 2014, which is 12.6% of the state's economy. See California's health care spending numbers for private health insurance, Medi-Cal, and Medicare.

US health spending reached $3.3 trillion in 2016, and is expected to grow faster than the economy over the next decade. This Almanac report, Health Care Costs 101: A Continuing Economic Threat, details how much is spent on health care in the US, which services are purchased, and who pays.

Are Californians getting the care they need? This survey shows that some groups are having a more difficult time accessing care than others.

National health spending will reach $5.6 trillion by 2025. Get the data on payers, per enrollee costs, payment sources, and spending on types of services.

Over the last few years, the quality of health care in California has improved on a number of measures. However, significant racial and ethnic disparities persist in some areas. This Almanac report, Quality of Care: Signals of Change, provides data on a number of measures, including childbirth, children's health, and management of patients with common chronic conditions.