{"id":30260,"date":"2012-01-12T16:00:54","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T16:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/usa_today_just_1_of_patients_drive_u-s-_health_care_spending\/"},"modified":"2012-01-12T16:00:54","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T16:00:54","slug":"usa_today_just_1_of_patients_drive_u-s-_health_care_spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30260","title":{"rendered":"(USA Today) Just 1% of patients drive U.S. health care spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just 1% of Americans accounted for 22% of health care costs in 2009, according to a federal report released Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s about $90,000 per person, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. U.S. residents spent $1.26 trillion that year on health care.<\/p>\n<p>Five percent accounted for 50% of health care costs, about $36,000 each, the report said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/washington\/story\/2012-01-11\/health-care-costs-11\/52505562\/1\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just 1% of Americans accounted for 22% of health care costs in 2009, according to a federal report released Wednesday. That&#8217;s about $90,000 per person, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. U.S. residents spent $1.26 trillion that<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30260\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,670,582,149,104,675,669,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-budget","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-economy","category-health-medicine","category-medicare","category-the-national-deficit","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}