[rainsford]

I liked the comparison someone offered in a reply to the post saying "5% of people buy 50% of the houses", which of course isn't because of disproportionate house buying but because most people don't buy a house every year.

To be somewhat fair to the original poster, they do offer a graph further down talking about total lifetime healthcare spending by percentile, which is also somewhat imbalanced and would account for spikes in healthcare spending by individuals due to accidents or temporary sickness. But despite being a better dataset to cite to make their point, they clearly didn't lead with the lifetime spending graph because it's significantly less imbalanced than just picking a specific year and so makes their argument weaker (if also more accurate).