As is becoming clear, there's nothing cheap about affordable health insurance for the masses. Defining the actual cost to insurers and others has been a tricky matter. Now, someone has put a number on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's overhead.
Health Affairs Blog has produced a study based on numbers provided by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that estimates that private and government overhead directly attributable to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will add an average of 20 percent per year to that cost.
In total dollars, the blog's study estimates, overhead will have added $273 billion by 2022.
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Dan Cook
Dan Cook is a journalist and communications consultant based in Portland, OR. During his journalism career he has been a reporter and editor for a variety of media companies, including American Lawyer Media, BusinessWeek, Newhouse Newspapers, Knight-Ridder, Time Inc., and Reuters. He specializes in health care and insurance related coverage for BenefitsPRO.
