TABLE 1.-Population aged 65 and over: Estimated total and number eligible and participating under medicare program for the aged, as of Jan. 1, 1960—Con.

1 The State distribution of the aged population as of Jan. 1, 1960, was estimated by the Division of Program Research, based on Census Bureau estimates of the distribution by State on July 1, 1958, adjusted by the differential changes in the Census Bureau estimates of the aged population between July 1, 1957, and July 1, 1958. (Census Bureau reports, series P-25, Nos. 194 and 214).

2 It is assumed that the 12.5 million aged estimated to be eligible would be distributed by State in the same manner as the unduplicated number receiving OASI or old-age-assistance in mid-1959.

3 For December 1959.

It is assumed that 75 percent of the non-old-age-assistance eligibles will participate.

5 Less than 500.

TABLE 2.-Medicare program: Total estimated annual expenditures1 by State, if all States participate, as of Jan. 1, 1960

TABLE 2.-Medicare program: Total estimated annual expenditures1 by State, if all States participate, as of Jan. 1, 1960-Continued

1 Cost of benefits-89 percent of costs of specified services (100 percent for OAA recipients) above $250 a year-and cost of administration. State per capita costs varied from national average on basis of variations in average State per diem costs of care in non-Federal general and special hospitals, 1959.

2 Federal share varies among States from 33% percent to 6633 percent on the basis of variations in State per capita income.

Less than $50,000.

TABLE 3.-Annual medical care expenditures for OAA recipients under medicare proposal, if all States participate, and present annual expenditures under OAA program, as of January 1, 1960

1 Includes medicare program expenditures for costs above $250 and public assistance program expenditures for costs up to $250 for an individual in a year.

2 Less than $50,000.

TABLE 4.-Change in annual expenditures for medical care for O▲▲ recipients as a result of medicare proposal compared with present total assistance expenditures under OAA program, if all States participate in medicare, as of Jan. 1, 1960

TABLE 5.-Total combined annual governmental expenditures under medicare and OAA programs for all participants aged 65 and over and resulting increase, by source of funds, over present total assistance expenditures for OAA recipients, if all States participate in Medicare, as of Jan. 1, 1960

1 Total expenditures from own funds, exclusive of revenues from the Federal Government, insurance trust expenditures and business enterprise expenditures. Percent for United States calculated exclusive of Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.

2 Data on 1958 expenditures from State-local funds not available. Less than $50,000.