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Hoodafan

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Wasn't this one of the major selling points for ACA? That we would save


healthcare costs when everyone was insured and that drop in uninsured would lead to less adding to the prices charged to the insured? And that by having everyone insured this would lead to fewer uninsured patients visiting the most expensive type of care in ER's? Guess we can add that to the list of Gruberisms, at least in the 757, but I'm sure it's no different elsewhere.

"Providers paid at least $1 million more for uncompensated medical expenses last year. Riverside had the largest increase, spending 11 percent more in 2016 than 2015. The health system provided more than $186 million in uncompensated care last year. The previous year it provided roughly $168 million, according to data from the health system."

Now TBF, they do not show pre-ACA years so we can't see how '16 compared to those, and it sounds like, not surprisingly, there is some due to money being fungible, but I guess I missed all those posts on the plummeting hospital costs we were promised.

Link: Hampton Roads health systems paid more for uninsured patients in 2016


Posted: 07/16/2017 at 12:15PM



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  Exactly. ** -- Hokie5150 07/16/2017 2:13PM

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