Priced Out: The Economic and Ethical Costs of American Health Care
From a giant of health care policy, an engaging and enlightening account of why American health care is so expensive—and why it doesn't have to be

Uwe Reinhardt was a towering figure and moral conscience of health care policy in the United States and beyond. Famously bipartisan, he advised presidents and Congress on health reform and originated central features of the Affordable Care Act. In Priced Out, Reinhardt offers an engaging and enlightening account of the U.S. health care system, explaining why it costs so much more and delivers so much less than the systems of every other advanced country, why this situation is morally indefensible, and how we might improve it. Drawing on the best evidence, he guides readers through the chaotic, secretive, and inefficient way America pays for health care, dispelling the confusion, ignorance, myths, and misinformation that hinder effective reform.

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Priced Out: The Economic and Ethical Costs of American Health Care
From a giant of health care policy, an engaging and enlightening account of why American health care is so expensive—and why it doesn't have to be

Uwe Reinhardt was a towering figure and moral conscience of health care policy in the United States and beyond. Famously bipartisan, he advised presidents and Congress on health reform and originated central features of the Affordable Care Act. In Priced Out, Reinhardt offers an engaging and enlightening account of the U.S. health care system, explaining why it costs so much more and delivers so much less than the systems of every other advanced country, why this situation is morally indefensible, and how we might improve it. Drawing on the best evidence, he guides readers through the chaotic, secretive, and inefficient way America pays for health care, dispelling the confusion, ignorance, myths, and misinformation that hinder effective reform.

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Priced Out: The Economic and Ethical Costs of American Health Care

Priced Out: The Economic and Ethical Costs of American Health Care

Priced Out: The Economic and Ethical Costs of American Health Care

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From a giant of health care policy, an engaging and enlightening account of why American health care is so expensive—and why it doesn't have to be

Uwe Reinhardt was a towering figure and moral conscience of health care policy in the United States and beyond. Famously bipartisan, he advised presidents and Congress on health reform and originated central features of the Affordable Care Act. In Priced Out, Reinhardt offers an engaging and enlightening account of the U.S. health care system, explaining why it costs so much more and delivers so much less than the systems of every other advanced country, why this situation is morally indefensible, and how we might improve it. Drawing on the best evidence, he guides readers through the chaotic, secretive, and inefficient way America pays for health care, dispelling the confusion, ignorance, myths, and misinformation that hinder effective reform.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780691208534
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 09/01/2020
Pages: 232
Sales rank: 625,066
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Uwe E. Reinhardt (1937–2017) was the James Madison Professor of Political Economy and Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. He wrote a regular column for the New York Times blog Economix.

Table of Contents

Foreword Paul Krugman ix

Foreword Senator William H. Frist, MD xv

Prologue xxiii

Introduction 1

I A Visual Stroll through America's Health Care Wonderland

1 U.S. Health Spending and What Drives It 13

2 Pricing Americans Out of Health Care 41

3 Some Interesting or Curious Facts about Our Health Care System 47

4 Who Actually Pays for Health Care? 62

5 Value for the Money Spent on U.S. Health Care 69

II Ethical Perspectives on U.S. Health Care

6 The Social Role of Health Care 81

7 The Mechanics of Commercial Health Insurance from an Ethical Perspective 85

8 The Elephant in the Room and the Ethical Vision Baked into Health Reform Proposals 99

9 The Ethical Vision of the Affordable Care Act of 2010 (Obamacare) 102

10 The Ethical Vision of the Health Reform Proposals of 2017 110

Conclusion: A Novel (My Own) Reform Proposal 135

Epilogue Tsung-Mei Cheng 139

Acknowledgments Tsung-Mei Cheng 169

Notes 173

Index 191

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From the Publisher

“Should be required reading for anyone who professes to have an interest in the debate—economists, journalists, legislators, doctors and patients.”—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times

“An accessible ‘masterclass’ in how US health care is paid for and where the money goes. . . . For his insistence on high ethical standards and for teaching us all how the US health care ‘wonderland,’ as he calls it, really works, we owe Uwe Reinhardt a large debt of gratitude.”—Jeff Goldsmith, Health Affairs

“A cogent synthesis.”—Adam Gaffney, Boston Review

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