三、美国老年医疗保险制度的问题及发展趋势 (一)、美国老年医疗保险制度存在的问题 1、费用扶摇直上,政府财政负担沉重。 美国65岁以上老人占总人口的12％,但他们消耗的卫生费用占全国个人卫生总费用的36％。1990年达1140亿美元,是1967年的33.5 Third, the United States the old-age medical insurance system problems and development trend (A), the United States the old-age medical insurance system problems 1, the cost soared, the government financial burden. In the United States, people over the age of 65 account for 12% of the total population, but they spend 36% of their total health expenditure on personal hygiene. It reached 114 billion U.S. dollars in 1990, up from 33.5 in 1967