According to Mr. Becker, one of the biggest impacts of healthcare reform on American’s everyday lives has been the rise of high-deductible health plans being used by employers to contain healthcare costs. However, he calls the growth of HDHPs as a result of healthcare reform “ironic,” because a Democratic-led initiative has given rise to a Republican-supported idea:
“You have something coming out of the Democratic administration and the Affordable Care Act that has been the longest standing plank of Republican healthcare, sort of consumer-driven healthcare which is embodied in these high deductible plans.”
As a result of the growth of HDHPs, “consumers will be much more cost conscious about their own healthcare delivery,” Mr. Becker said.
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