Analysis of the July 15 draft of The American Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009
July 2009
Lewin Contact: John Sheils
In this memorandum for The Heritage Foundation, originally published July 17, 2009 and revised July 23, 2009 , we present estimates of the impact of the Act on sources of insurance coverage and provider incomes. We present our results in the following sections:
- Insurance exchanges and the public plan;
- Medicare payment reforms;
- Coverage effects;
- Detailed physician impacts analysis; and
- Detailed hospital impacts analysis.