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- If Medicare payment levels are used in a public health care plan, premiums could fall by as much as 30 percent compared with premiums for comparable private coverage.
- If eligibility is limited to small employers, individuals and the self-employed, 42.9 million people would be eligible for coverage.
- Net hospital revenues would fall by 4.6 percent under a public plan proposal that adopts Medicare reimbursement rates and assumes eligibility for everyone; physician net income would fall by 6.8 percent. Under a plan with restricted eligibility, net hospital revenues would actually increase by $11.3 billion, but net physician incomes would decline by $3.0 billion.
Source: The Lewin Group
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