“National Health Expenditure Report Shows We Have Not Solved the Cost Problem,” by Joseph Antos and James Capretta, Health Affairs Blog

“Medicaid spending in real terms grew at an average annual rate of 4.4 percent over the period 2010 to 2016. On a per-capita basis, real Medicaid spending actually fell at an average annual rate of 0.3 percent over that period. . . . Per-person spending on Medicaid is heavily influenced by the characteristics of new enrollees into the program. In recent years, the program has enrolled millions of new beneficiaries who are not disabled or elderly, and thus have far lower annual costs than beneficiaries with those characteristics. The effect has been to slow the growth of per-person spending, even as overall program spending has surged.”

LTC Comment (from Stephen A. Moses, President, Center for Long-Term Care Reform):

Medicaid spending goes disproportionately to long-term care for the aged, blind and disabled, yet analysts focus almost entirely on acute care for the young and able, especially those added by ObamaCare. Read How to Fix Long-Term Care Financing for the diagnosis, prognosis, and prescription.

National Health Expenditure Report Shows We Have Not Solved the Cost Problem

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