Comment on the Lewin Report on the Impact of SB 921

Economic and Policy Analysis of California’s Proposed 1Single-Payer Health Care System (SB 840) Project Director and Contact: John E. Schneider, PhD 2Health Economics Consulting Group LLCjschneider@hecg-llc.com February 2006 © 2006 by Health Economics Consulting Group LLC 1 This report was funded in part by the California Association of Health Underwriters. The authors would like to acknowledge the valuable assistance of Jeff Miles, Alexis Barbour, Janet Benton, Christopher Decker, Robert Ohsfeldt, Robin Flagg, Jeff Lemieux, and Jim Capretta. The views expressed in this document are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funding organizations. 2 LLC The Health Economics Consulting Group is group of academic health economists and health services researchers providing research consulting services in a number of subject areas in health economics, including cost impact and cost-effectiveness analyses, patterns of care and estimates of treatment effects using claims data, and economic impact of health sector regulation, including antitrust, managed care regulation, licensure and capacity regulation, and administered pricing. For more information, visit www.hecg-llc.com. HECG / Schneider et al. Page 2 of 38 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The primary objective of this report is to ...