Doctors, hospitals, insurers, drugmakers seen benefiting from health care bill

[steven johnson]

You sure this is a Democratic bill?

In the end, the health care industry that had been uneasy about reform now anticipates getting 32 million new paying customers in the coming years, a windfall of business they were losing amid the poor economy and rising numbers of uninsured patients.

Hospitals

Analysts say the new enhanced payments and reduction in the numbers of the uninsured will more than offset the $150 billion in lower payments from the Medicare health insurance program over a 10-year period that also is part of the health reform legislation.

Doctors

Primary care doctors and group practices will get enhanced payments from government insurance programs for coordinated medical care and for encouraging the use of outpatient and preventive medical care services. The idea is to restrain the use of specialists and promote efficiency through the increased use of electronic health records and other technology improvements.

Insurance companies

Health plans are expected to get a big boost in business, particularly from the small-group and individual markets that tend to do without coverage for their workers or themselves because the costs are so high.

Drug companies

Though drugmakers have agreed to contribute $84.8 billion over a 10-year period to pay for health care reform, analysts expect the pharmaceutical industry to more than make up for it in the long run.


Doctors, hospitals, insurers, drugmakers seen benefiting from health care bill

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