A new Kaiser Family Foundation study says that one of the things that is credited with keeping healthcare costs low — higher cost sharing with consumers — is crippling for families struggling to make ends meet.
Which raises the question, what means the “affordable” in “Affordable Care Act?”
You can read the report here. And thanks, Leftover, for the link.
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Tangentially related:
ACA has not reduced insurers administrative waste at PNHP.org.
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It is good, though, to see the economic argument becoming more forthright in healthcare reform analysis.
If you’re interested, John Geyman MD of PNHP, Professor Emeritus of Family Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine and author of the new book Obamacare is Unsustainable, has published around the web some slightly more detailed analyses of ObamaCare® at age five:
Access to Care
Cost and Affordability of Care
Quality of Care
Not exceptionally long reads. Mostly summaries of what’s in the book. Maybe a little wonky, but not too much.
Thanks for these. When I land somewhere this afternoon, I will read these links.