Economix aca2/3/2024 The book 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 "With the posthumous publication this month of his final work, a book entitled Priced Out: The Economic and Ethical Costs of American Health Care, Reinhardt’s reputation for cutting to the quick of the issues in U.S. Reinhardt proposes an alternative path: that by age 26 all Americans must choose either to join an insurance arrangement with community-rated premiums, or take a chance on being uninsured or relying on a health insurance market that charges premiums based on health status.Īn incisive look at the American health care system, Priced Out dispels the confusion, ignorance, myths, and misinformation that hinder effective reform. At this point, he argues, the United States appears to have three stark choices: the government can make the rich help pay for the health care of the poor, ration care by income, or control costs. There is no American political consensus on a fundamental question other countries settled long ago: to what extent should we be our brothers’ and sisters’ keepers when it comes to health care? Drawing on the best evidence, he guides readers through the chaotic, secretive, and inefficient way America finances health care, and he offers a penetrating ethical analysis of recent reform proposals. The problem, Reinhardt says, is not one of economics but of social ethics. 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. In Priced Out, Reinhardt offers an engaging and enlightening account of today’s U.S. Famously bipartisan, he advised presidents and Congress on health reform and originated central features of the Affordable Care Act. Uwe Reinhardt was a towering figure and moral conscience of health care policy in the United States and beyond.
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