Economics

"In 2021, 5% of the population accounted for nearly half of all health spending... 50% of the population with lowest total health spending accounted for only 3% of all health spending... 14% of the population had $0 in health expenditures"

"In 2021, 5% of the population accounted for nearly half of all health spending... 50% of the population with lowest total health spending accounted for only 3% of all health spending... 14% of the population had $0 in health expenditures"

https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-expenditures-vary-across-population/

Complexity explorer. Residing in the liminal.

Struggling to determine whether the takeaway is that a significant portion of people lack access to healthcare (i.e. the privileged subset who do have access drive up costs by default) or that a concentrated group of people with certain conditions incur relatively higher costs than the general population.

Interesting questions. I suspect it's way more complicated than the report covers. Very strong power law effects, would need deeper analysis to understand.