{"id":590,"date":"2009-06-01T10:27:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T14:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=590"},"modified":"2009-06-01T10:27:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T14:27:00","slug":"the-high-concentration-of-u-s-health-care-expenditures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=590","title":{"rendered":"The High Concentration of U.S. Health Care Expenditures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahrq.gov\/research\/ria19\/expendria.htm\">The High Concentration of U.S. Health Care Expenditures<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Half of the population spends little or nothing on health care, while 5 percent of the population spends almost half of the total amount. Examining the distribution of health care expenses among the U.S. population sheds light on areas where changes in policy might bring about the greatest savings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Select to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahrq.gov\/research\/ria19\/expendria.pdf\">download print version (PDF File, 785 KB). <\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><em>Indeed, well run micro-systems that exist at Mayo, Cleveland, Geisinger, Virginia-Mason and others show us it&#8217;s possible.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The High Concentration of U.S. Health Care Expenditures: &#8220;Half of the population spends little or nothing on health care, while 5 percent of the population spends almost half of the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=590\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The High Concentration of U.S. Health Care Expenditures&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-practice-variation"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}