Post-Election, Americans Aren’t As Eager To Repeal Health Law, Poll Finds

That’s an average of $9,990 per person, although the vast share of that money is spent caring for the sickest patients.

The committee also heard updates on plans to study space needs at the hospital, integration of private practices recently acquired into the health system and efforts to create a more diverse student and faculty population in the School of Medicine. Another four in 10 say their health care costs would be about the same. This week, he chose as his health secretary a vehement critic of the law. In its aftermath, President-elect Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers have signaled their intention to follow through on their campaign promise to repeal President Obama’s landmark health care legislation. There has been a persistent misconception that simply providing health insurance is the same as assuring effective access to appropriate health care.

The poll found majorities across party lines support numerous health care law’s provisions, but not its requirement that individuals have coverage or risk fines, and its mandate that medium-to-large employers pay fines if they don’t offer health insurance. But the problem of costs has re-emerged.

Open enrollment for 2017 ends January 31, although people who want their insurance to start January 1 have to sign up by December 15. Some of the newly insured turned out to be sicker than those who were already covered.

Spending growth for physicians and clinical services was 6.3% and that category accounted for 20% of all healthcare spending.

It gets worse. Price supports the Republican drive to dismantle Medicare, the government-run health insurance program that covers 55 million seniors. In doing the analysis, the HHS experts count the employee share of premiums for job-based insurance as spending by households.

Federal government spending grew at a rate of 8.9% in 2015 after an 11% increase in 2014. In both cases, policies would be less comprehensive. Half (52%) of those who supported Trump say the cost of health care for them and their family will get better under repeal, and many say the quality of their health care (39%) and their ability to get and keep health insurance (35%) would get better.

Spending for hospital care increased 5.6 percent in 2015 to $1 trillion, driven mainly by greater use and intensity of services. Americans paid $324.6 billion for retail prescription drugs past year mainly because of increased spending for generic medications, costly new drugs and price hikes for existing brand-name drugs. This benchmark was not reached until mid-December previous year.

The Obama administration said in October that it would handpick plans for those who lost coverage because their insurer exited the exchanges. “We need to push harder and harder”.

With a Trump presidency on the horizon, it’s the flawless time to evaluate how the country’s health care situation has shifted through the Obama years.

“The administration can spin the law’s failings by pointing to misleading enrollment numbers that don’t tell the whole story, but Americans aren’t buying it, just as they aren’t buying Obamacare’s unaffordable and low-quality plans”.

Quincy says the number one determinant of whether people can pay medical bills is whether they have insurance.

Shannon Muchmore reports from Washington on health politics and policy.