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Who Does and Would Pay for the Uninsured?

by Kevin Roche on Tuesday, June 2, 2009

A not-for-profit group that has been a vigorous proponent of health care reform has released a report, Hidden Health Tax, on the costs of the uninsured and who ultimately bears that cost.

Tags: Cost Shifting, Government, Health Insurance, Uninsured


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If you have commercial health insurance coverage, at some point or another, you’ve been paying for the shortfall in reimbursement from state and federal governments

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The average per capita cost of healthcare services covered by commercial insurance grew by 8.03% over the 12 months ending in September, while costs for Medicare healthcare services grew by only 1.97% for the same period, Standard & Poor’s Healthcare Economic Indices show.

3/29

Raising Medicare’s eligibility age by two years would save the federal government $7.6 billion but those costs—and more—would shift to others, according to a report out today


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