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10/13 2009
If You Think Health Care Reform is Expensive
Consider how expensive it would be without it. The Urban Institute’s recent report, The Cost of Failure to Enact Health Reform, provides a state-by-state estimate of Medicaid costs, rates of employer-sponsored insurance, family/employer premium spending, uncompensated care and the uninsured for three different economic scenarios (worst, intermediate, best) between 2009-2019 if no reform measures are enacted.
Consider selected indicators from the worst case scenario for Arizona:
|
2009
|
2019
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Percent
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|
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Medicaid/Chip Spending
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$8.9B
|
$21B
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135%
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Uncompensated Care
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$1.5B
|
$3.5B
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139%
|
|
Employer Premium Spending
|
$7.7B
|
$18.2B
|
135%
|
|
Individual/Family Spending
|
$6.1B
|
$11.7B
|
92%
|
|
Employer-Sponsored Insurance
|
49.5%
|
42.9%
|
-13.3%
|
|
Uninsured
|
22.8%
|
26.5%
|
16.2%
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The best case scenario is only marginally better. There, Medicaid/CHIP goes up a mere 86%.
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