Impact of Health Reform on: The Uninsured # of uninsured reduced from 46 million today to ~23 million in Safety net hospital funding through Medicare cut by $36 billion through Community health centers receive extra $1 billion annually
Impact of Health Reform on: The Underinsured If you like your current coverage you can keep it. If you don’t like your current job-based coverage, you HAVE to keep it. Policies required to cover at least 60% of expected health costs – e.g. $2,000 deductible + 20% co-insurance for next $15,000 of care.
Impact of Health Reform on: Medical Bankruptcy No change for 75% of medically bankruptcy filers who have insurance. Up to 50% reduction among the 25% of the medically bankruptcy who were uninsured in 2007 but will gain coverage under reform. Maximum expected reduction in medical bankruptcies = 12.5%.
Impact of Health Reform on: Health Care Costs - 1 Expanded Medicaid - $434 bil. Subsidies for private coverage - $358 bil. Small employer tax credits - $37 bil. Temporary high risk pools, subsidy for retirees <65, etc – ~$10 bil. All figures reflect spending through 2019 All figures reflect spending through 2019
Impact of Health Reform on: Health Care Costs – 2 (savings) Decreased Medicare Advantage/HMO overpayment - $136 bil. Decreased Medicare (DSH) payment to safety net hospitals - $36 bil. Decreased Medicare fee-for-service payments to doctors/hospitals - $196 bil. Other Medicare/Medicaid cuts - $87 bil. All figures reflect spending through 2019 All figures reflect spending through 2019
Impact of Health Reform on: Cost Control Provisions Insurance exchanges Health information technology Comparative effectiveness research Fraud and abuse prosecution/recovery Alternatives to F-F-S (experiments) Coverage of preventive services Tax on “Cadillac” coverage Malpractice reform (experiments) Medicare advisory board
Health Reform Bill: Proven Cost Control Provisions
Impact of Health Reform on: Administrative Costs IRS cost to enforce mandate - $5-10 bil Running insurance exchanges - ~4% of premiums (based on Massachusetts) Insurance overhead - ~13% of new premium revenues = $42 bil Cap on insurance overhead - ???? Standardized claim forms - ????
Role Played by Health Industry in Health Reform Insurance donations to Dems & Repubs + ads in favoring AND opposing Pharma - >$100 million on ads supporting reform Senate framework written by Liz Fowler, former VP of Public Policy for Wellpoint/Anthem