An independent group says national health care reform will shrink spending by $590 billion.
The Commonwealth Fund released a report that says:
- the average family will save about $2,000 a year in health insurance by 2019
- taxpayers will save $524 billion in reduced Medicare costs; and
- the national deficit will get cut $400 billion over 10 years.
You can read the full report, in all its wonky goodness, via the series of tubes.
Lawmakers are meeting this week to talk about making health care reform work here in Washington state. Many of the ideas included in the national reform got their start right here, including the Basic Health Plan.
