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ARTHUR: You are indeed brave, Sir knight, but the fight is mine.
BLACK KNIGHT: Oh, had enough, eh?
ARTHUR: Look, you stupid bastard, you’ve got no arms left.
BLACK KNIGHT: Yes I have.
ARTHUR: Look!
BLACK KNIGHT: Just a flesh wound. (more)
In the US the top 5% of medical spenders spend an average of $40,682 a year each, and account for 49.5% of all spending. (The bottom half spend an average of $236.) Not too surprisingly, 60.3% of these people are age 55 or older. Perhaps more surprising, on their health self-rating, 28.9% of these folks say they are “good”, 19.9% “very good” and 7.5% “excellent”, for a total of 56.3% with self-rated health of “good” or better (source).
So, are these folks in serious denial, or is most of our medical spending on hardly sick folks?
Just A Flesh Wound
They might not even be lying on that latter point, just twisting a bit. They love being in the condition of having a job, as contrasted with being in the position of having to do the same amount of work looking for a job with nothing to show for it afterward.
I have a sense that, for most sufficiently affluent Westerners, it would be a faux pas to rate oneself as in poor health. You are supposed to be in good health, and you would never admit to anything else in mixed company. These same people usually say they love their jobs, even though their saying so is about the only evidence you can find for that claim.