The percentage of federal, state, and local taxpayer funding of healthcare expenditures rose from 59.8% in 1999 to 64.3% in 2013, and is projected to increase to 67.1% by 2024, according to David Himmelstein, MD, and Steffie Woolhandler, MD, MPH, both of City University of New York School of Public Health at Hunter College in New York City. The study appeared online in the American Journal of Public Health.
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