Under the existing health care system, Americans can expect to pay $11.7 trillion between out-of-pocket costs — the copays, deductibles and uncovered medical expenses — and premiums over the next decade. (Photo: Shutterstock)
Promoting her much-discussed plan to create a single-payer "Medicare for All" health system, Sen. Elizabeth Warren emphasized a striking figure.
"If we make no changes over the next 10 years, Americans will reach into their pockets and pay out about $11 trillion on insurance premiums, copays, deductibles and uncovered medical expenses," the Democratic presidential candidate said in an Instagram video posted Monday.
The Democratic health care debate has been full of competing analyses and estimates about what Medicare for All might cost, what it might save and who would bear the brunt of paying for it. But this precise number was new to Kaiser Health News.
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