This new report looks at the cost-control measures in the bills now before Congress and finds that the measures in these bill will, in fact, “bend the curve." We find that over the next 15 years.
American businesses will collectively spend $684 billion less on health insurance premiums
Workers will spend $190 billion less on premiums.
The rate of growth in Medicare spending will slow by more than one percentage point.
We also identify and explain 12 specific measures of cost containment, including spending less money to fix treatment mistakes (warranties and error reporting), steering people from emergency rooms to routine care (individual mandate and primary care access) and taking the guesswork out of treatment decisions (comparative effectiveness research).
Health Care Reform Could Boost Employment by 250,000 to 400,000 a Year this Decade. This paper will demonstrate the potential impact of health care reform on employment growth in the new decade, examining two recent studies and then combing their estimates of potential employment growth. In the analysis that follows, we combine these two studies to show that health care reform could increase the number of jobs in the United States by about 250,000 to 400,000 per year over the coming decade.
