Speaking of ‘cost-cutting’ …
Annual health care spending per person totaled $6,409 in New England and $6,151 in the rest of the Northeast, compared to a national average of $5,283, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services reported this week.
Highest per capita spending was recorded in the District of Columbia, $8,295, followed by Mitt Romney's Massachusetts, at $6,683 -- 26 percent above the average.
The big-spending states tend to be those where the highest percentage of people are insured, and those with "generous Medicaid programs," according to the report. The lowest per person health care spending? Utah, interesting enough, where the population seems healthy enough, but where costs run a mere $3,972 per person.
