Uwe Reinhardt Blames Employers for High Medical Prices

Updated on July 1, 2013

Great piece on The Health Care Blog by Ewe Reinhardt, one of the nation’s leading authorities on health care economics and the James Madison Professor of Political Economy at Princeton University.

Here’s an excerpt:

I welcome Leah Binder’s earlier post on this blog, written in  response to my blog post in The New York Times. To be thus acknowledged is an honor.

As an economist, I am not trained to respond to Ms. Binder’s deep insights into my psyche, dubious though it may be. Nor, alas, can I delve into hers, fascinating though that might be. Let me therefore concentrate instead just on substance.

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