Impact of various health coverage proposals / U.S. Health Spending for Seniors Climbs 30%

[CAL/AAEM News Service]

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August 28, 2009
Report estimates impact of various health coverage proposals

The American Hospital Association<http://www.aha.org/>

An estimated 17 million uninsured Americans would gain health coverage if Medicaid were expanded to cover people with incomes up to 133% of the federal poverty level, according to a study<http://www.rwjf.org/files/research/47860nonelderly.pdf> released today by the the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured. Providing subsidies to purchase health coverage to individuals with incomes between 133% and 399% of the poverty level would benefit 16.3 million uninsured adults, the study estimates. The groups also released studies<http://www.rwjf.org/healthreform/product.jsp?id=47860> estimating how many uninsured parents, childless adults and children would be covered under these and other scenarios being considered by Congress as part of health care reform.
August 27, 2009
U.S. Health Spending for Seniors Climbs 30% over decade

The American Hospital Association<http://www.aha.org/>

The U.S. spent an estimated $333.3 billion on health care for people 65 and over in 2006, $106 billion more than in 1996, according to a new report<http://www.meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/data_files/publications/st256/stat256.pdf> by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. That's an average increase of $2,091 per senior who used health services. About 20% of seniors had emergency room expenses in 2006, up from 13% in 1996. The portion spent on inpatient care decreased over the 10-year period to 37% from 43%, while the portion spent on outpatient care increased to 29% from 23%. The portion spent on prescription medicines rose to 22% from 13%, while the portion spent on home health care decreased to 7% from 15%. The spending estimates include payments from all sources to health care providers for services reported in the household component of the federal Medical Expenditure Panel Survey.


Abid Mogannam &
Brian Potts MD, MBA
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University of California, Irvine
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