These facts emerge from the National Health Accounts 2014-15 just uploaded on the union health ministry's website.In Himachal, people had to pay only about half the total health expenditure from out of their own pockets, while in Bihar their share was 82%. The national average for households' share of the total spending was less than two-thirds. Shockingly, in Punjab , considered one of the most prosperous states, government spending was just 17% of the total health expenditure, while people spent 79.3% from their own pockets.The two figures do not add up to 100% because total health expenditure also includes private or government-funded health insurance, spending by NGOs and by external donors. So where is all this money going?According to the NHA , private hospitals (26%) and private clinics (5%) accounted for almost a third of the total health spending, while pharmacies raked in another 29%. Diagnostic labs and patient transport accounted for about 5% each.Inpatient care was 35% and outpatient care about 16% of the total health expenditure, while medicines and medical products accounted for almost 30%.

Source: Times of India November 29, 2017 22:52 UTC