Government: Analysis of the Affordable Health Care for America Act

Using a microsimulation model, this RAND analysis estimates the effects of the Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962) on the number of uninsured, the costs to the federal government and the nation, revenues from penalty payments, and consumers' health care spending. Key finding: the House version of health care reform would cut the number of uninsured Americans to 24 million by 2019 (a 56% decrease) and increase personal spending on health care by about 3.3% cumulatively between 2013 and 2019.

Read Analysis of the Affordable Health Care for America Act (pdf) by Elizabeth A. McGlynn, Jeanne S. Ringel, Federico Girosi (RAND Publications)
See, also: Side-by-side comparison of the House & Senate health care reform bills (H.R. 3962 and H.R. 3590) as of January 7, 2010 (Rand Publications)