Economists Debate Wisdom of Health Care Price Setting
In a Sept. 9 webinar hosted by the Brookings Institution and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, leading health care economists debated the value of government intervention in prices — and got into an extended argument about what makes U.S. health care prices so high in the first place.
The event was held in honor of the late Princeton economist Uwe Reinhardt, who wrote the seminal 2003 health care economics paper “It’s the Prices, Stupid” and advocated for the U.S. to shift to an all-payer system along the lines of his native Germany, in which prices for health care services and products are subject to uniform schedules.
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