Business Insider April 1, 2020
Uninsured Americans requiring an inpatient stay for coronavirus treatment could owe a collective $1.4 trillion.
- Uninsured Americans would owe the US healthcare system a collective $1.4 trillion in a worst-case scenario, according to a recent report by healthcare cost database FAIR Health.
- That number is based on a high need for an inpatient stay with a high incidence rate — the $1.4 trillion is the average from that projection, so it could be even higher.
- For comparison’s sake, that $1.4 trillion is nearly 70% of the size of the newly introduced $2.2 trillion stimulus bill. But most of the stimulus isn’t going directly to uninsured Americans.
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