- AEG/WP accurately reported that health coverage costs real money.
- Annual premiums are:
- $8,829 in the individual market
- $6,668 in the small group market
- $5,845 in the large group market.
- Annual premiums are:
In the lowest priced large group, members of the vast majority of plans also are subject to at least some cost sharing (deductibles, copayments, and/or coinsurance). Accordingly, $5,845 represents a minimum annual health care cost for covered individuals without direct primary care.
Even with the savings resulting from direct primary care, AEG/WP computes large group market premiums for plan participants with direct primary care to be $5,592 per year.
It’s helpful to see realistic numbers on the Georgia Public Policy Foundation’s own website, because in the recent past the Foundation has advocated a Medicaid program built around direct primary care that was budgeted at on an annual cost of $2,500 per person, for a population to whom financially significant cost-sharing would be virtually impossible.
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