By NextBestFitMedical liability system (2008 dollars)
Amount
$55.6B
per year
Per resident, per year
$163
÷ 341.1M people
Per household, per year
$421
÷ 132.2M households
How it is built
Payments, legal costs, lost time, and defensive medicine; 2.4% of spending
Part of: Spread across national spending (overlapping estimates; do not add)