Brief The Cost of Uncompensated Care with and without Health Reform
John Holahan, Bowen Garrett
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In this report the authors estimate that under the health reform bill passed by the Senate, the cost of uncompensated care will fall from $62.1 billion in 2009 to $46.6 billion in 2019. If no health reform is enacted, they project that uncompensated care would rise to between $107 and $141 billion in 2019. Over the six-year period of proposed health reform legislation, 20142019, the costs of uncompensated care without health reform would be between $560 and $700 billion. With reform, the cost would be $330 billion under the Senate bill and provide substantive savings to each level of government.
Research Areas Health and health care
Tags Health insurance Federal health care reform Health equity State health care reform
Policy Centers Health Policy Center