How We Can Pay for Health Care Reform

 

Urban Institute Researchers Calculate Savings from Reform and Show that Revenue Options Provide Ample Funds to Finance Health Care Reform

July 29, 2009

By: Berenson RA, Holahan J, Blumberg LJ, Bovbjerg RR, Waidmann T, Cook A, Williams A and Urban Institute

A new analysis shows that savings from many popular health reform ideas would finance the lion’s share of the cost of comprehensive health care reform. It also shows that a combination of revenue options currently being discussed would provide more than enough money to fill the relatively modest gap between the cost of reform and the savings resulting from it.

The Urban Institute analysis outlines multiple options for health reforms that would save the government $1.25 trillion over 10 years:

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