Urban Institute Touts Medicare, Medicaid Per-Capita Cost Control

An analysis released by the Urban Institute on Monday (Feb. 11) finds that growth in spending per enrollee in Medicare and Medicaid was much slower than in private insurance between 2006 and 2017, with the authors blaming health care cost containment issues on private insurance. “Medicare and Medicaid are doing a good job of keeping per capita costs under control, though the continuation of recent policies is essential. The larger cost containment problems the nation faces are in the...