Michael Hiltzik: A brilliant economist diagnoses the US health care system — from beyond the grave
When the economist Uwe Reinhardt died unexpectedly in November 2017, his colleagues and followers lamented the silencing of one of the most penetrating, objective and effective voices in the health care debate.
They didn't know the half of it. With the posthumous publication this month of his final work, a book entitled "Priced Out: The Economic and Ethical Costs of American Health Care," Reinhardt's reputation for cutting to the quick of the issues in U.S. health care reform is only enhanced. The book should be required reading for anyone who professes to have an interest in the debate - economists, journalists, legislators, doctors and patients.
Reinhardt, who spent his academic career on the Princeton faculty, may be best known for his seminal article on the reason for America's outlandish spending on health care compared to every other developed country. Published in the journal Health
