From 5:95 To 1:99

There has been much attention paid to the 5%:95% dichotomy in health care spending – The Marketing Challenge Of The 5% & The 95%, Five Percent of Americans Responsible for Half of U.S. Health Spending, and What Are The Spending Stats On Chronic Conditions?. The summary – about 5% of the population in the United States accounted for 48.7% of the total $1.4 trillion in health care expenditures among the U.S. civilian non-institutionalized population.

But new statistics from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) point out the “compression” in this concentration of spending – that . . .