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Originally Posted by ChinoCoug
Crappy useless paper? The ACA is the most ambitious attempt to extend coverage since medicaid. A front-lines report from the major proponent of the act has academic value.
The study uses a third-party survey that predates the ACA on how many people have insurance. If someone loses coverage, that's accounted for because the survey is blind to the mechanisms of the ACA.
The slowdown in growth of healthcare costs is UNPRECEDENTED. It's never happened before during ANY economic boom. You were probably looking at some white paper from some shady think tank.
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No. I am looking at some economic papers from certain schools. The slow-down is not correlated to the ACA.
Conversely, healthcare costs have often risen faster than inflation. What drives healthcare costs has not been understood and still isn't. It is a much more complex equation than post hoc ergo propter hoc.
The slowing costs is more tied to the fact that Medicare is freezing payments, which insurance companies follow, than actual costs being frozen. Additionally, people were poor during the 2009 through 2015 period, so people were unable to spend more. There are plenty of citations that show the ACA is not responsible for any slow down in costs.