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Health Care Financing Reform: (97) Extent of Coverage and Subsidies in the House and Senate Bills

December 27, 2009

     If a principal goal of health care reform is universal coverage, both the House and Senate bills fall short of this ideal.  But each bill gets us most of the way there.

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Health Care Financing Reform: (87) New CMS Report Shows Higher Expenditures for Health Care Because More People Will Be Enrolled on the Exchange

December 11, 2009

     Yesterday the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released this report estimating the effect of the original Senate health care bill submitted by Majority Leader Harry Reid on the federal deficit and on projected health care expenditures.  This post concerns how the new CMS report differs from the previous report prepared by the Congressional Budge [...]

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Health Care Financing Reform: (73) The Senate Bill Will Reduce the Cost of Non-Group Health Insurance

November 29, 2009

     Mike Allen at The Politico has posted an article stating that Jonathan Gruber, an economist at MIT, has issued a report concluding that individuals will pay less for health insurance under the Senate health care reform bill, the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act.

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Health Care Financing Reform: (22) Improving Competition in the Market for Health Insurance

September 23, 2009

     The principal mechanism that the proposed health care legislation utilizes to broaden coverage and to bring down the cost of medical care is to increase competition in the market for health insurance.  In this respect the Baucus bill is woefully deficient in three respects.  The most important wrangling over the bill will involve changes to [...]

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