A sleeping giant of health care affordability — Self-Insured employers

Por: Song, ZiruiColaborador(es): Gondi, SuhasTipo de material: TextoTextoIdioma: Inglés Descripción: páginas: 1878-1880Tema(s): MEDICINA CLÍNICA GENERAL | COSTO DE LA ATENCIÓN MÉDICA | PRESTACIÓN DE SERVICIOS DE ATENCIÓN MÉDICA | COBERTURA DE SEGURO | CALIDAD DE LA ATENCIÓN En: The New England Journal of MedicineResumen: More than half of Americans — approximately 178 million people — have employer-sponsored health insurance, the coverage sector where health care prices have risen the fastest. More than 60% of this population is covered by self-insured (or “self-funded”) plans: the employers or unions themselves, not insurance companies, pay the medical bills of their workers and workers’ dependents. Increasingly, health care expenses among these workers and families are driving the nation’s reckoning over the cost of living and the policy shift toward affordability.
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More than half of Americans — approximately 178 million people — have employer-sponsored health insurance, the coverage sector where health care prices have risen the fastest. More than 60% of this population is covered by self-insured (or “self-funded”) plans: the employers or unions themselves, not insurance companies, pay the medical bills of their workers and workers’ dependents. Increasingly, health care expenses among these workers and families are driving the nation’s reckoning over the cost of living and the policy shift toward affordability.