The Cost of Doing Nothing: Why the Cost of Failing to Fix Our Health System is Greater than the Cost of Reform

November 2008  In this report, researchers sought to evaluate the costs of failure to change how Americans access health care. They evaluated the various ways that health care costs, wages, health system efficiencies, and insurance package design affect individuals access to quality, affordable health care. A national estimate was developed, and an overview of the current situation in each state and how situations are likely to change by 2016. Each measure is calculated in 2006 dollars . . .