A Different Kind of 1%

Wednesday, January 18th, 2012 | Health Insurance

In a statistical brief released last week, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) reported that 1 percent of Americans accounted for nearly 22 percent of total health care spending (or slightly more than $90,000 per year for each individual in that 1 percent).  Further statistical analysis revealed that 5 percent of the population accounted for half of all health expenditures.