Yes. The higher rates of unfair treatment experienced by publicly insured and uninsured adults could have many causes, including providers’ and staff biases, payment and administrative barriers, and affordability issues.
More than three in five adults who reported unfair treatment or judgment experienced a disruption to their health care. Implementing strategies to reduce unfair treatment could avoid these disruptions.
The senators’ proposal would phase in a public option plan for the nongroup market and small-group market over four years, reducing the number of uninsured by 1.1 million people in 2023 and saving the federal government $250 billion over 10 years.
Our analysis of financial pressure on the Medicare program overall and the contributions of Medicare’s Parts to that pressure highlight the difficult choice between reducing Medicare spending and taking needed funds from somewhere else.
Hospital profitability is unrelated to medical debt at the hospital market level while hospital charity care is positively related, showing the importance of policies that support the financial well-being of both patients and hospitals.
Although Medicare Advantage (MA) was supposed to generate Medicare savings, it hasn’t. An analysis of three major components of the MA payment system shows the need for reforms to improve MA and help shore up Medicare’s financing.
