Uwe Reinhardt figured out our health care problem
Sarah Kliff praised Uwe Reinhardt who just died for teaching her that we don’t consume too much health care, we just pay too much for it. We actually consume a bit less health care than average. Here are Sarah’s words in Vox:
“The paper is called "It's the prices, stupid!" It is co-authored with Gerald Anderson, Peter Hussey, and Varduhi Petrosyan.
The thrust of the argument is this: America does not have an overuse problem when it comes to medicine. We do not go to the doctor more than people in other countries — we actually go to the doctor a little bit less.
The reason that American health care is so expensive is that, each time Americans do go to the doctor, we pay outlandishly high prices. We're not consuming lots and lots of health care. We're just paying higher price tags.”
So we just need price controls. Problems solved.
