10 States Spending The Most On Health Care: Report

The study, by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, tracked health care spending in all states from 1991 until 2009, by which time the average per-capita health care expenditure for U.S. citizens had expanded to $6,815. According to the report, regions that spent more on health care tended to have wealthier, older populations, and states that spent less generally had poorer populations with larger number of the young and uninsured

Massachusetts tops the list as the state which spent the most on health care, with $9,278 spent per resident in 2009, joined in the top 10 by other New England states including Connecticut and New Hampshire. Indeed, according to the study, eight of the top 10 states are counted in the top third of states with the highest per capita income levels.  Read more….