Health insurance administrative costs are indeed much higher in the U.S. than in other countries. That's driven primarily by private insurance. In traditional Medicare, administrative costs are 1.3% of total spending.

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Medicare Spent an Average of 27% More on People Who Switched from Medicare Advantage to Traditional Medicare Compared to Those Who Were Only in Traditional Medicare
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🧵 Trump & MAGA can do plenty of damage to the #ACA w/out actually repealing it...but there's 44M reasons why they *might* proceed w/caution after all: 1/

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I'm updating a project from earlier this year which visually explains how much health insurance premiums will skyrocket for various households if the IRA's upgraded #ACA subsidies are allowed to expire at the end of 2025.

Blog post in the works, but here's a sneak peak at ALABAMA:

KFF is out with a complete analysis of the role health care played in voters' decision. Always a pleasure to partner with the @asssociatedpress.bsky.social and Votecast is such a treasure trove of data!

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📣 NOW LIVE: How many people have #ACA healthcare coverage in YOUR Congressional District?

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Enhanced ACA premium subsidies expire at the end of 2025. Here's a new calculator showing how much out-of-pocket premiums would go up if Congress and the Trump administration don't extend them. The average premium increase would be 79%.

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In new pub with @lndanderson.bsky.social , we give practical recommendations for explaining difficult concepts to patients #FMSky #medsky #healthcommunication

Not really a question of whether Trump and Republicans will go after Medicaid and the ACA

It’s a question of how aggressively — and what kind of political opposition might stop them www.huffpost.com/entry/health...

Some words that can mean Obamacare:

ACA
Affordable Care Act
Marketplace
Healthcare.gov
Exchange
HIX
Covered California
Kynect
HealthSource RI
Connector
Your Health ID
Health Link
New York State of Health
Pennie
MNSure
CoverME
Medicaid/Cal (in expansion states)

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Congressional GOP and Trump will try to gut the Medicaid expansion which covered 21.7 million people as of March. My colleagues @adamsearing.bsky.social & Aubrianna Osorio highlight the many benefits of the expansion for children and families. #healthpolicy ccf.georgetown.edu/2024/11/19/h...

Enhanced Marketplace subsidies are set to expire at the end of 2025. See how much net premiums are set to increase with the end of these subsidies using our new calculator.

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