,,Worry Less Spend Less: Out-of-Pocket Spending Caps Protect America's Families

Worry Less Spend Less: Out-of-Pocket Spending Caps Protect America's Families


 

Publication Date: March 2011

Publisher: Families USA

Author(s): Kim Bailey; Elisabeth Rodman; Kathleen Stoll

Research Area: Health

Keywords: health reform; health insurance; out-of-pocket cost

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

The report examines how the Affordable Care Act will protect insured people from high medical costs through new caps on out-of-pocket spending. It provides estimates of how many Americans will have spending that exceeds these caps and by how much, and it looks at how many of those people work for small businesses.