The Concentration Of Health Care Expenditures, Revisited
- 1 March 2001
- journal article
- Published by Health Affairs (Project Hope) in Health Affairs
- Vol. 20 (2), 9-18
- https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.20.2.9
Abstract
In two previous publications, we described the distribution of health care expenditures among the civilian, noninstitutionalized U.S. population, specifically in terms of the share of aggregate expenditures accounted for by the top spenders in the distribution. Our focus revealed considerably skewed distribution, with a relatively small proportion of the population accounting for a large share of expenditures. In this paper we update our previous tabulations (last computed using data more than a decade old) with new data from the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS). Our findings show that the skewed concentration of health care expenditures has remained very stable; 5 percent of the population accounts for the majority of health expenditures.Keywords
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