About 5 percent of the population is responsible for almost halfof all health care spending in the United States and for risingpremium rates, according to a new report from the NationalInstitute for Health Care Management Foundation. U.S. spending forhealth care has been on a “relentless upward path,” the reportclaims, reaching $2.5 trillion in the aggregate, $8,100 per person,and 17.6 percent of GDP in 2009.
Of the nearly $8,100 in health spending for each person in theU.S., approximately $6,800 (84 percent) went to cover personalhealth care services and products. About half of the U.S.population accounted for only 3.1 percent of all expenditures, thereport says. But 10 percent of the population is responsible for63.6 percent of all health spending.
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