Concentration of healthcare expenditures in the U.S. 2017
The total expenditure of cumulative 80 percent of the American population for healthcare amounted to 311 billion U.S. dollars in 2017. The statistic illustrates the concentration of healthcare expenditures in the United States, by cumulative percentage of expenditures and total expenditure. Around 22 percent of total U.S. health care expenditures are estimated to be caused by the top one percent of persons ranked by their annual health expenditures.