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Study outlines impact of health care reform on Kansans Ellsworth Reporter

18.05.10

Study outlines impact of health care reform on Kansans
By Mike Shields, KHI News Service
Last Updated: May 18, 2010

Health reform is expected to increase federal health care spending in Kansas on the under-age-65 population by $820 million a year, according to an actuarial study of the new law released Tuesday.

To put that in perspective, that's almost as much as the $883 million the federal government paid in subsidies to Kansas farmers last year.

The new federal health reform, after its major provisions begin in 2014, also likely will mean reduced health insurance costs for small Kansas businesses and most individuals, according to the report prepared for the Kansas Health Policy Authority by schramm-raleigh Health Strategy, a Scottsdale, Ariz. consulting firm.

The study was underwritten by the United Methodist Health Ministry Fund. It updates an earlier schramm-raleigh analysis done for the health policy authority that considered the ramifications

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