claim: "despite the administration telling us (health care reform) was going to reduce health care costs, they now acknowledge it's going to dramatically increase health care costs."
author: lamar smith
evidence_1: adults without health insurance are far more likely to go without health care that  ... cost sharing is an effective means to reduce the use of health care for trivial or  ... despite today's robust economy, safety net providers—especially core safety  .... in receiving services until they gain public insurance (rabinowitz et al., 2001).
evidence_2: jul 30, 2018 ... bernie sanders's “medicare for all” bill is estimated to cost $32.6 trillion — a ... he  acknowledges that sanders's “medicare for all” plan would yield a $482 ... and  experience from past reforms tells us that they won't increase their hours, ...  altogether, the increase in federal health spending is dramatic and ...
evidence_3: at its core is maximizing value for patients: that is, achieving the best ... efforts to  reform health care have been hobbled by lack of clarity about the ... access to  poor care is not the objective, nor is reducing cost at the expense of quality. .... if  providers can improve patient outcomes, they can sustain or grow their market  share.
evidence_4: as congress and the administration consider legislation to reduce the ... and  efficiency of care that lead to higher costs and to poor health outcomes. ... of  payment and delivery system reforms designed to improve health care in a new  report. ... americans often do not get the care they need even though the united  states ...
evidence_5: it's that we're measuring the wrong things the wrong way. ... u.s. health care  costs currently exceed 17% of gdp and continue to rise. ... makers talk about cost  reduction and “bending the cost curve,” they are typically referring to ... current  health care reform initiatives will exacerbate the situation by increasing access to  an ...