Impact of expanding Medicaid

Costs could be reduced still more with the addition of even a modest employer health insurance mandate to cover a share of the uninsured. [...]if we took real action on health care costs, these expansions could be accomplished without any new funds at all. According to the Pepper Commission, expandi...

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Published in:Health Affairs 1991, Vol.10 (3), p.272-273
Main Author: Altman, D E
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
BASIC (programming language)
Cost estimates
Elder care
Employers
Geriatrics
Health care expenditures
Health care industry
Health care policy
Health insurance
Humans
Insurance coverage
Long term health care
Long-term care
Medicaid
Medicaid - economics
Medicaid - legislation & jurisprudence
Medically Uninsured
Older people
Politics
Poverty
State budgets
Uninsured people
United States
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Summary:Costs could be reduced still more with the addition of even a modest employer health insurance mandate to cover a share of the uninsured. [...]if we took real action on health care costs, these expansions could be accomplished without any new funds at all. According to the Pepper Commission, expanding coverage for long-term care for the elderly adds $35 billion to the bill. [...]there is the serious question of whether Medicaid is worth expanding until the basic program is either repaired or scrapped and replaced with something else.
ISSN:0278-2715
1544-5208
DOI:10.1377/hlthaff.10.3.272