Program Costs per Person
Congressional per capita expenditures for Native Americans via the Indian Health Service tend to be much smaller than per capita expenditures for other populations. Per capita data of expenditures for populations like prisoners tend to be sparsely collected, leading to holes in year-to-year data.
Per capita federal health expenditures for different services (dollar amount per person)
| Organization |
Year |
| 2003 |
2004 |
2005 |
2006 |
2007 |
2008 |
2009 |
2010 |
2011 |
2012 |
2013 |
| Indian Health Service |
$1,914 |
|
$2,130 |
|
|
|
$2,696 |
$2,741 |
|
|
|
| Medicare |
$5,915 |
|
$6,784 |
|
|
|
$11,018 |
|
|
|
|
| Medicaid |
$3,879 |
|
|
|
|
$5,841 |
|
|
|
|
|
| Veterans |
$5,214 |
|
$4,653 |
|
$6,130 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Federal prisoners |
$3,803 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| National health care |
$5,065 |
|
|
|
|
|
$6,909 |
|
|
|
|
| Federal employees* |
$3,725 |
|
|
|
|
|
$4,817 |
|
|
|
|
* FEHB Benchmark.
* Sources: Department of Health and Human Services, Indian Health Service and National Congress of American Indians
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