Connecticut spends more on health care per resident than all but two states in the country, a new study says.
In 2009, Connecticut spent $8,654 per resident on health care costs, nearly 27 percent more than the national average of $6,815, according to a recently released report by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
 Only Massachusetts and Alaska spend more money on helath care than The Nutmeg State.
The study found that there is a wide variation in terms of what states are spending on health care.
States with the highest per capita spending tended to have older populations and the highest per capita incomes; states with the lowest per capita spending tended to have younger populations, lower per capita incomes, and higher rates of uninsured.
Over the last decade, the New England and Mideast regions exhibited the highest per capita personal health care spending, while states in the Southwest and Rocky Mountain regions had the lowest per capita spending, the report said.
