title: Public funding for contraceptive, sterilization and abortion services, fiscal year 1992.
abstract: In 1992, the federal and state governments spent $645 million to provide contraceptive services. According to the results of a survey of health, social service and Medicaid agencies conducted by The Alan Guttmacher Institute, Medicaid accounted for 50% of all public spending on family planning services. State governments, which spent a total of $155 million of their own revenues for contraceptives services, accounted for 24% of public funding, Title X for 17%, and the social services and maternal and child health block-grant programs for nearly 10%. Medicaid expenditures for contraceptive services increased dramatically between 1990 and 1992, and were responsible for a 28% rise in total expenditures for contraceptive services during that period. However, when inflation is taken into account, total public expenditures for contraceptive services have decreased by 27% since 1980, and Medicaid has replaced Title X as the primary source of funding for such services. The federal and state governments together spent $138 million to subsidize sterilization services in 1992, an increase of 46% from 1990. The federal and state governments also spent $80 million to provide 202,622 abortions to poor women; less than 1% was contributed by the federal government. These estimates of expenditures are approximations that, because of methodologic problems and changes over time, may overstate public expenditures for contraceptive services.
authors.affiliation: Alan Guttmacher Institute, Washington, DC.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Daley
authors.forename: R B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Gold
mesh_terms: D000029:Abortion, Legal / Q000191:economics*; D003267:Contraception / Q000191:economics*; D003625:Data Collection; D005193:Family Planning Services / Q000191:economics*; D005260:Female; D005380:Financing, Government / Q000191:economics* / Q000639:trends; D005102:Health Expenditures / Q000706:statistics & numerical data* / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D007250:Inflation, Economic; D008427:Maternal Health Services / Q000191:economics; D008484:Medicaid / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011247:Pregnancy; D012947:Social Work / Q000191:economics; D013219:State Government; D013245:Sterilization, Reproductive / Q000191:economics*; D014481:United States