I wonder how equally distributed that cost is. If it follows a Pareto distribution, which would be my first guess, then it would be costing 20% of the populatio

I wonder how equally distributed that cost is. If it follows a Pareto distribution, which would be my first guess, then it would be costing 20% of the population over $2000 per year. If so, it would be relatively insignificant to the economy at large, but worth still worth tackling for specific states or cities where the problem looms larger.