Your Dismal Fact of the Day

medical-health-fact — Dr. Ethan Brackett gives instructions during an examination of patient Cristina Valdez at the Codman Square Health Center April 11, 2006 in Dorchester, Massachusetts (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

FrumForum alumnus Jeb Golinkin points out:

Just 1% of Americans accounted for 22% of the 1.26 trillion spent on health care in 2009, according to a new federal study. That's about $90,000 per person. 5% of the population accounted for half of total health care spending.

It almost makes market sense to assign each of the top 1% a case-worker, to figure out—is all this spending really buying anything?