Expanding Medicaid to cover about 20 million more low-income people will cost a total of more than $1 trillion from 2013 to 2022, the report estimates. But states will pay just $76 billion of that, or roughly 7 percent of the cost.
Two nonpartisan groups, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Urban Institute, collaborated on the new analysis.
It also found that a few states might actually spend less than they do now.
The Supreme Court allowed states to opt out of the health care law's Medicaid expansion, an issue that will be hotly debated when state legislatures meet next year.
106,000 non-error negative effects of drugs
80,000 infections in hospitals
45,000 other errors in hospitals
12,000 unnecessary surgery
7,000 medication errors in hospitals
250,000 total deaths per year from iatrogenic diseases.
If hospitals would reduce iatrogenic complications, healthcare would be much more affordable, whether private or public. Of course, their revenue would drop substantially--in the short run at least.
Source for most of the above data: articles in mainstream medical journals (e.g. JAMA).
I conferred with Forest Gump on this and he said "stupid is as stupid does."