We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Covering the uninsured in 2008: current costs, sources of payment, and incremental costs.
- Authors
Hadley, Jack; Holahan, John; Coughlin, Teresa; Miller, Dawn
- Abstract
People uninsured for any part of 2008 spend about $30 billion out of pocket and receive approximately $56 billion in uncompensated care while uninsured. Government programs finance about 75 percent of uncompensated care. If all uninsured people were fully covered, their medical spending would increase by $122.6 billion. The increase represents 5 percent of current national health spending and 0.8 percent of gross domestic product. However, it is neither the cost of a specific plan nor necessarily the same as the government's costs, which could be higher, depending on plans' financing structures and the extent of crowd-out.
- Publication
Health affairs (Project Hope), 2008, Vol 27, Issue 5, pw399
- ISSN
1544-5208
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1377/hlthaff.27.5.w399