60% Growth in Federal Spending: Funding PP/ACA Healthcare

“In discussing the impact of the Affordable Care Act, (Douglas) Elmendorf ( director of the Congressional Budget Office )said that as we look forward to the future state of the budget, we can expect that increased spending on social security, Medicare and Medicaid will account for approximately 85 percent of the projected increase in annual spending over the coming decade.

The Affordable Care Act, Elmendorf said, is all about value-based tradeoffs. While the budget will be largely negatively impacted by this policy – the Affordable Care Act is estimated to be responsible for 60 percent of growth in federal spending over the next 10 years – 26 million more people will be insured.” Cornell University:

Increased spending on social security, Medicare and Medicaid will account for approximately 85 percent of the projected increase in annual spending over the coming decade.

http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2014/09/congressional-budget-office-director-spending-cant-last

So what is Value Based tradeoffs?

The Center for Value-Based Medicine® , Quality-of-Life UtilityDatabase© is a globally unique, standardized, health-related, quality-of-life information system created primarily through the efforts of more than 30 experienced physician researchers over a 9-year period from 1998 through 2012. Employing time tradeoff utility analysis as the measurement instrument to quantify the quality-of-life associated with specific diseases, the Database is comprised of values obtained from patients with those diseases.

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