The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More is Getting Us Less

You’d be wise to spend only about $10 of your budget on medical care and spend more on improving social and environmental factors such as substandard housing, job stress, poverty, discrimination, and dangerous neighborhoods — what experts often call the “social determinants of health.” When we think about what really shapes our health, medical care

It is also critical to understand that health care spending is highly concentrated among a tiny number of very sick people.