Uwe Reinhardt

We Americans, or half of Americans, think health care is a commodity. Other countries view health care as a social service that…

— Uwe Reinhardt

The American people are not ready for the idea that everyone has at least a moral right to good, timely health care.…

— Uwe Reinhardt

Massachusetts is the first state in America to reach full adulthood. The rest of America is still in adolescence.

— Uwe Reinhardt

Everybody should have health care, on the one hand. But on the other hand, if you ask Americans, "Are you willing to…

— Uwe Reinhardt

Americans believe that the private sector is always more efficient and cheaper than big government, and particularly when you go among Republicans,…

— Uwe Reinhardt

The bad things the U.S. health care system are that our financing of health care is really a moral morass in the…

— Uwe Reinhardt

If you want to look at a purely socialized health care, you would have to go to the United States, where we…

— Uwe Reinhardt

We economists, in our classes, teach students that to some degree, price discrimination is actually a good thing; that it allows you…

— Uwe Reinhardt

There are libertarian values which say private property is the overarching value, the sanctity thereof, and there are egalitarians who say health…

— Uwe Reinhardt

We have a nation where the elite thinks it's OK to advocate a war and send the lower-income people to do the…

— Uwe Reinhardt

The [Hobby Lobby Supreme Court] ruling raises the question of why, uniquely in the industrialized world, Americans have for so long favored…

— Uwe Reinhardt

The rich are becoming richer, and the gap between the rich and the poor is getting bigger.

— Uwe Reinhardt

Americans keep telling me they hate government. I always tell them: "Man, I've got a country for you: Go to Afghanistan; they…

— Uwe Reinhardt

The issue of universal coverage is not a matter of economics. Little more than 1 percent of GDP assigned to health could…

— Uwe Reinhardt

We are the only nation where paper is still the mainstay in the private insurance industry.

— Uwe Reinhardt

The good things at the U.S. health care system are that we have a well-trained labor force, particularly physicians; I don't think…

— Uwe Reinhardt

The ACA is an ugly patch on an ugly system - and I don't think it's worth mentioning in the context of…

— Uwe Reinhardt

The bad things are that our financing of health care is really a moral morass. It is a moral morass in the…

— Uwe Reinhardt