The ACA's Medicare savings, while hugely important and successful (and in fact even larger than the number you're citing here), were relative to...
No, it didn't.
What you're imagining is an extremely normal type of monopoly situation: competition driving down margins, leading incumbents to the impulse to...
In a thread about how monopoly insurers can drive up costs, isn't it self-evident how introducing a new competitor in every market could lower...
So you're telling me that nothing changed about your coverage and there was no change in the composition of your risk pool (because it was...
The number is actually slightly lower (2.6% annual growth per enrollee) if you start the clock in in 2009. Employer-based coverage has seen...
Spending per enrollee in employer-based coverage in the U.S. has gone up by just a smidge under 2.7% annually over the 2013-2023 period. The data...
It did slow cost growth, which is why all coverage today costs less, not more, than people were predicting when the ACA passed. The average...
I'm talking about all health care spending, the cost of the American health care system. Relative health care costs are essentially the same today...
Silly to focus on one small market segment which was intentionally funneled resources precisely because the coverage before was so inaccessible...
But you believe that a "sustainable health care system" requires allowing Medicaid and Medicare to boot people based on their lifestyle choices?
Coverage is at historic highs so "people simply didn't purchase anymore" doesn't make sense. Per member per month payouts by insurers offering...
My point wasn't that either market is "corrupted," merely that the implication that auto insurance is better at holding down the price of auto...
CPI for motor vehicle maintenance is at 159.4% of its 2010 value today. CPI for medical care is at 142.9% of its 2010 value. CPI for all items...
Well, it also started revamping the business model for health care to one that rewards and demands efficiency and accountability for cost/quality...
From 2013 (the year before most of the ACA's insurance requirements took effect) to last year, per enrollee spending for employer-based coverage,...
It's excellent news, but sobering that: 1) As the article notes, this is easily "the most important thing that has happened to the federal budget...
The ACA's reductions in Medicare Advantage overpayments were fully implemented. Surprise, they didn't destroy the program. But they did save the...
Republican voters love Obamacare. Maine Voters Approve Medicaid Expansion, a Rebuke of Gov. LePage Idaho, Nebraska and Utah Vote to Expand...
It would be okay if a public option existed but didn't dominate the market! If its mere existence kept other payers honest, and perhaps gave them...
If teaching has become more lucrative than cardiac surgery (average base salary >$500K/year), the education-industrial complex looks due for some...
The numbers are from the National Health Expenditures tables (Historical | CMS), specifically row 55 (Per Enrollee Estimates of Private Health...
The ACA helps millions of people pay for coverage in the individual marketplace. That's the immediate lowering of premium expenses for people that...
Except not really, no. First of all, I cited national health expenditures in particular because that reflects what the American health care...
The reality is that not only did Obamacare itself cost substantially less than we were told it would, the subsequent deceleration of health care...
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