Economix Blog: Uwe E. Reinhardt: Rationing Life-Years
Heatlh-care costs continue to soar, yet we do not yet seem to have found a ceiling at which Americans are ready to start setting boundaries on what care is available to whom, an economist writes. full story 
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Economix Blog: Uwe E. Reinhardt: Hammurabi's Code and U.S. Health Care
If society values doctors’ treatment of the rich and the poor equally, it should look at equity in the fees they receive for different patients, an economist writes.
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Economix Blog: Uwe E. Reinhardt: The Governance of Nonprofit Hospitals
Many nonprofit health institutions have nothing to hide, so it is not clear why they do not make their financial documents easily available, an economist writes.
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Economix Blog: Uwe E. Reinhardt: American Health Care as a Source of Humor
How American hospitals reach their pricing policies could make you laugh, if you’re not a patient, an economist writes.
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Economix Blog: Uwe E. Reinhardt: U.S. Health Care Prices Are the Elephant in the Room
Until voters demand transparent and equitable pricing, it will be hard for the United States to control health care spending, an economist writes.
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Economix Blog: Uwe E. Reinhardt: Health Care as an Economic Stabilizer
Lost in the continuing discussion of the rising costs of health care is the stabilizing effect those costs have on the economy, an economist writes.
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Economix Blog: Uwe E. Reinhardt: The Culprit Behind High U.S. Health Care Prices
Employers are to blame for high and widely divergent prices for health care in the United States, an economist writes.
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Economix Blog: Uwe E. Reinhardt: What Hospitals Charge the Uninsured
Why not link the prices that hospitals can charge the uninsured to the prices Medicare pays? an economist asks.
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Should Doctors Be Paid Like Hedge Fund Managers?
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Today's Economist: Uwe E. Reinhardt: Americans Are Shocked, Just Shocked, Over Hospital Bills
It should not be impossible to restrain hospitals from charging so much, but few attempts have been made.
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Economix Blog: The Old vs. the Young
The Great Recession has been a disaster for the employment prospects of the young, but the story is quite different at the other end of the life cycle.
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