The issue of universal coverage is not a matter of economics. Little more than 1 percent of GDP assigned to health could cover all. It is a matter of soul. — Uwe Reinhardt Copy Share Image
We Americans, or half of Americans, think health care is a commodity. Other countries view health care as a social service that should be collectively financed and available to everyone on equal terms. My wife and I just interviewed the German minister of health, and it was an exhilarating experience, because it was a totally different language. It was obviously… — Uwe Reinhardt Copy Share
The American people are not ready for the idea that everyone has at least a moral right to good, timely health care. They do agree they have a moral right, in critical cases, to have anything done to save their life, but they don't believe that anyone has a right not to fall that sick to begin with. So if… — Uwe Reinhardt Copy Share
Massachusetts is the first state in America to reach full adulthood. The rest of America is still in adolescence. — Uwe Reinhardt Copy Share Image
Everybody should have health care, on the one hand. But on the other hand, if you ask Americans, "Are you willing to pay for… — Uwe Reinhardt Copy Share Image
Americans believe that the private sector is always more efficient and cheaper than big government, and particularly when you go among Republicans, even after… — Uwe Reinhardt Copy Share Image
The bad things the U.S. health care system are that our financing of health care is really a moral morass in the sense that… — Uwe Reinhardt Copy Share Image
If you want to look at a purely socialized health care, you would have to go to the United States, where we have it.… — Uwe Reinhardt Copy Share Image
We economists, in our classes, teach students that to some degree, price discrimination is actually a good thing; that it allows you to serve… — Uwe Reinhardt Copy Share Image
There are libertarian values which say private property is the overarching value, the sanctity thereof, and there are egalitarians who say health care should… — Uwe Reinhardt Copy Share Image
We have a nation where the elite thinks it's OK to advocate a war and send the lower-income people to do the fighting. It's… — Uwe Reinhardt Copy Share Image
The [Hobby Lobby Supreme Court] ruling raises the question of why, uniquely in the industrialized world, Americans have for so long favored an arrangement… — Uwe Reinhardt Copy Share Image
The rich are becoming richer, and the gap between the rich and the poor is getting bigger. — Uwe Reinhardt Copy Share Image
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