_Trends and Indicators in the Changing Health Care Marketplace,_ a chartbook recently released by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation (see the February 9, 1999 Scout Report for Social Sciences), is now available online (in .pdf format only). This 101-page chartbook presents policymakers, journalists, and others with an understanding of how rapidly the health care marketplace is changing in the...

Recently released, the July 1999 issue of Issues in Labor Statistics looks at the amount of money the average American household spent on health care in 1997, as compared to 1987. On average, Americans spent $1841 in 1997, close to $700 more than in 1987. The highest rise in expenditures were in the Midwest, where consumer units spent 73 percent more on health care. Respectively, the Northeast,...