News release: “A health care plan that combines the best elements of the current employer-based system and the Medicare model would create big savings, offer more choices and guarantee affordable coverage to all U.S. residents, according to a new cost and coverage analysis of the plan by the Lewin Group, a nationally respected nonpartisan
consulting firm. Health Care for America, developed for the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) by Yale political scientist Jacob S. Hacker, would achieve these goals and maximize consumers’ health care choices without unraveling existing health security, forcing individual to
obtain coverage on their own, pressuring patients into health savings accounts or using inadequate vouchers. Lewin estimates the proposal would cover 99.6 percent of all Americans without raising
total national health spending. It would also save hundreds of billions over time – more than $1 trillion over the next 10 years – in national health spending, according to Lewin.”

• Cost Impact Analysis for the “Health Care for America” Proposal [PDF] prepared by The Lewin Group, Inc.
• Lewin Group Cost Impact Analysis: Executive Summary [PDF]
• Costs and Savings: Breakdown of Lewin Group Cost Analysis [PDF]
• Two Approaches to U.S. Health Care Reform: Shared Responsibility vs. ‘You’re On Your Own’[PDF]
• Lewin Cost Analysis: Coverage Fact Sheet [PDF]