Did you know that about 5 percent of the population is responsible for nearly half of all health care spending in this country?

On the flip side of that, a whopping 50 percent of the population – the healthy ones – only makes up 3.1 percent of all expenditures, according to a new report out of the National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation.

Of course, this also means we have 5 percent of the population responsible for inflating premiums for all of us.

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