How health care costs contribute to income disparity in the United States

McKinsey Quarterly

Volumn , Issue 2, 2009, Pages 50-53

  Auguste, Byron G ^a   Laboissiere, Martha ^b   Mendonca, Lenny T ^b  

^a McKinsey's Washington DC Office   (United States)

^b MCKINSEY AND COMPANY   (United States)

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1. All average incomes are for 2005. The top-income group represents 10 percent of all households; the higher-middle-, lower- middle-, and bottom-income levels each make up 30 percent of the remainder.
2. Analysis done for years comparable to available detailed household Current Population Survey (CPS) data. 6 Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Korea, Poland, Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland. 7 This figure is based on our analysis of administrative interactions between payers and providers, including both hospitals and physicians.