Re:United States Health Care Reform: Progress to Date and Ne...
by dragonwriter on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @04:04PM
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> We need a period of time that isn't coincident with a huge recession before we celebrate this too much.
The most recent recession ended the same year the ACA was passed, the annual average cost growth rates, for private insurance and both major public programs, after the ACA are lower than the 5 year period containing that recession and the passage of the ACA, and even moreso lower than the 5 year period before that (during which there was no "huge recession".) [0]
The most recent recession ended the same year the ACA was passed, the annual average cost growth rates, for private insurance and both major public programs, after the ACA are lower than the 5 year period containing that recession and the passage of the ACA, and even moreso lower than the 5 year period before that (during which there was no "huge recession".) [0]
[0] Figure 4 in TFA.