A 2012 AHRQ study found that in 2009, 1 percent of the population accounted for 21.8 percent of total health care spending.That imbalance brings another one to mind: the highest-earning 1% of Americans took home about 22 percent of the nation's income in 2012, according to a study by economists Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty.
With apologies to Feyman, I feel compelled to cut in with my own modest proposal for bending the chronic care cost curve -- one in keeping with our nation's growing reliance on the bounty of billionaires.
