The Battle for the Souls of American Doctors
By Kent Bottles, MD We physicians like to think that we are really different from other workers. We physicians, perhaps thinking back to that medical school application essay we all wrote, really...
View ArticleThree Reasons Uwe Reinhardt Blames Purchasers for Everything
By Leah Binder Uwe Reinhardt is one of the nation’s most respected health care economists, professor at the prestigious Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton, fellow of the Institute of Medicine, and one...
View ArticleYes. Employers Really Are to Blame For Our High Medical Prices
By Uwe Reinhardt I welcome Leah Binder’s earlier post on this blog, written in response to my blog post in The New York Times. To be thus acknowledged is an honor. As an economist, I am not trained to...
View ArticleWould We Be Better Off If Employers Stopped Paying for Health Insurance?
By Uwe Reinhardt In his “Are Employers to Blame for Our High Medical Prices?,” David Dranove takes issue with my statement in a New York Times blog post: “One reason for the employers’ passivity in...
View ArticleA Health Plan for Rugged Individualists
By Uwe Reinhardt In his “The Great American Health Care Divide,” Brad DeLong laments the great ideological divide that has so long prevented this great country from developing a coherent national...
View ArticleTalmudic-Like Studies of Republican Health Reform Ideas
By Uwe Reinhardt After doing Talmudic-like studies of the doctrines on health reform promulgated by Republican health-policy makers and the conservative economists who inspired them during the past two...
View ArticleHow Naïve Can Democrats Get?
By Uwe Reinhardt Beholding David H. Howard’s rendering of the crazy-quilt of financial sources that have been tapped by the designers of the Affordable Care Act of 2010 (hereafter ACA ’10) to finance...
View ArticleACA 101: An Employer’s Search for Objective Advice
By Michael Turpin In ancient Athens, the philosopher Diogenes wandered the daylight markets holding a lantern, looking for what he termed, “an honest man.” It seems since the dawn of the consumer...
View ArticlePig in a Poke Health Reform
By UWE REINHARDT From a political perspective, House Speaker Paul Ryan’s trashing of ObamaCare (a.k.a. the Affordable Care Act or ACC) during CNN’s recent town hall meeting probably was quite...
View ArticlePurging Healthcare of Unnatural Acts
BY UWE REINHARDT Everyone knows (or should know) that forcing a commercial health insurer to write for an individual a health insurance policy at a premium that falls short of the insurer’s best ex...
View ArticleWhich Is More Efficient: Employer-Sponsored Insurance or Medicaid?
By SAURABH JHA, MD An old disagreement between Uwe Reinhardt and Sally Pipes in Forbes is a teachable moment. There’s a dearth of confrontational debates in health policy and education is worse off for...
View ArticleUwe Reinhardt 1937-2017
Uwe Reinhardt, Princeton economist and one of the best known and best loved personalities in the health policy world died today. I join the rest of the health policy community in mourning the passing...
View ArticleYes. Employers Really Are to Blame For Our High Medical Prices
By Uwe Reinhardt I welcome Leah Binder’s earlier post on this blog, written in response to my blog post in The New York Times. To be thus acknowledged is an honor. As an economist, I am not trained to...
View ArticleWould We Be Better Off If Employers Stopped Paying for Health Insurance?
By Uwe Reinhardt In his “Are Employers to Blame for Our High Medical Prices?,” David Dranove takes issue with my statement in a New York Times blog post: “One reason for the employers’ passivity in...
View ArticleA Health Plan for Rugged Individualists
By Uwe Reinhardt In his “The Great American Health Care Divide,” Brad DeLong laments the great ideological divide that has so long prevented this great country from developing a coherent national...
View ArticleTalmudic-Like Studies of Republican Health Reform Ideas
By Uwe Reinhardt After doing Talmudic-like studies of the doctrines on health reform promulgated by Republican health-policy makers and the conservative economists who inspired them during the past two...
View ArticleHow Naïve Can Democrats Get?
By Uwe Reinhardt Beholding David H. Howard’s rendering of the crazy-quilt of financial sources that have been tapped by the designers of the Affordable Care Act of 2010 (hereafter ACA ’10) to finance...
View ArticleACA 101: An Employer’s Search for Objective Advice
By Michael Turpin In ancient Athens, the philosopher Diogenes wandered the daylight markets holding a lantern, looking for what he termed, “an honest man.” It seems since the dawn of the consumer...
View ArticlePig in a Poke Health Reform
By UWE REINHARDT From a political perspective, House Speaker Paul Ryan’s trashing of ObamaCare (a.k.a. the Affordable Care Act or ACC) during CNN’s recent town hall meeting probably was quite...
View ArticleWhich Is More Efficient: Employer-Sponsored Insurance or Medicaid?
By SAURABH JHA, MD An old disagreement between Uwe Reinhardt and Sally Pipes in Forbes is a teachable moment. There’s a dearth of confrontational debates in health policy and education is worse off for...
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