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Uwe Reinhardt

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Name: Uwe Reinhardt

First Reported Mar 15 2010 - Updated Mar 15 2010 - 1 Documents

Jeanne Shaheen

Economists, Dems Differ On Who's To Blame For Insurers' Rate Hikes

Topics: Politics, Insurance, Health CostsDemocrats assailed health insurers for hiking rates in recent weeks to gain popular momentum for their health overhaul, but health economists say insurers did cause high health costs, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ... [Published Mar 15 2010 by Kaiser Health News]

Entities: Rate Hike, Uwe Reinhardt, Health Insurance, Jeanne Shaheen

First Reported Mar 14 2010 - Updated Mar 15 2010 - 2 Documents

Insurers alone can't be blamed for rates, economists say: Demand, prices push up health care costs

In the final push for health care reform, health insurance companies have become an inviting target, with supporters of reform focusing on insurers imposing steep rate increases for individual insurance.Proponents of the Democrats' proposed legislation, ... [Published Mar 14 2010 by RBC Dain Rauscher]

Entities: Health Care, Katherine Baicker, Larry Schreiber, Health Insurance

First Reported Mar 07 2010 - Updated Mar 07 2010 - 1 Documents

More clarity in regulations would lead to less healthcare fraud

Even though roughly 20 percent of current Medicare payments likely go toward fraudulent claims, as fraud investigator Harry Markopolos pointed out as a HIMSS10 keynote speaker in Atlanta on Thursday, Princeton University economics professor Uwe Reinhardt ... [Published Mar 07 2010 by Fierce Healthcare]

Entities: Uwe Reinhardt, Fraud, Health Care

First Reported Mar 05 2010 - Updated Mar 05 2010 - 1 Documents

Uwe Reinhardt and “Evidence Based Administration”

Princeton economist Uwe Reinhardt has a thought-provoking piece in the New York Times ( How Much Fraud and Abuse Is There in U.S. Health Care? ) in which he argues that there is inordinate attention paid to ferreting out fraud and abuse in US hospitals. ... [Published Mar 05 2010 by Health Business Blog]

Entities: Uwe Reinhardt, Fraud, Health Care, Abuse

First Reported Feb 23 2010 - Updated Feb 23 2010 - 1 Documents

WellPoint Inc

A Decoy Gambit?

'Watch out for people who lure you away from the real issue with the Decoy Gambit,' warns Roger Dawson, author of Allow me to explain. On Feb. 22, President Obama introduced a on health care reform, crafted from the bills that already passed the House ... [Published Feb 23 2010 by Slate Magazine]

Entities: Health Insurance, Decoy, Uwe Reinhardt, WellPoint Inc

First Reported Feb 20 2010 - Updated Feb 20 2010 - 1 Documents

Kathleen Sebelius

Who's the Bad Guy in Insurance Premium Hikes?

Updated: 16 minutes agoPrint Text SizeE-mail MoreTamara Lytle Contributor(Feb. 19) -- Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius recently told the story of villainous insurance companies charging double-digit rate increases for health coverage ... [Published Feb 20 2010 by AOL]

Entities: Sandy Praeger, Uwe Reinhardt, Kathleen Sebelius

First Reported Feb 19 2010 - Updated Feb 19 2010 - 1 Documents

Paul Krugman

Link exchange

TODAY's recommended economics writing. Alan Blinder on getting the most bang for your job-creation buck. ( Washington Post ) Paul Krugman and Uwe Reinhardt on NYTimes.com on various bits of the economics of healthcare reform. ( Paul Krugman , Economix ... [Published Feb 19 2010 by Free exchange]

Entities: Paul Krugman, Uwe Reinhardt, Alan Blinder

First Reported Feb 15 2010 - Updated Feb 15 2010 - 2 Documents

What is Obvious to Everyone Else -- By: John Hood

Perhaps the president and his strategists have an elaborate parliamentary scheme in mind, as some suggest, but I tend to think that they are just having a hard time seeing what everyone else seems to see -- that their health-care plan isn’t going to gain ... [Published Feb 15 2010 by National Review]

Entities: John Hood, Republican Party (US), Uwe Reinhardt, Health Care

First Reported Dec 03 2009 - Updated Dec 03 2009 - 1 Documents

Why health-care reform can't control costs

A reader asks: I heard (somewhere on NPR I think ... maybe This American Life) an argument that in many regions the public option and generally more competition among health insurers would actually drive premiums up. In these regions, ... [Published Dec 03 2009 by Ezra Klein]

Entities: Medicare, Uwe Reinhardt, National Public Radio, Insulator, Medicaid

First Reported Nov 18 2009 - Updated Nov 18 2009 - 1 Documents

Economists Tout Health Care Reform In Letter To Obama

In a boost to the Obama administration's efforts to frame health care reform as an economic boon, a group of 20 health economists sent a letter to the White House on Tuesday touting the fiscal results of passing reform legislation. The ... [Published Nov 18 2009 by The Huffington Post | Full News Feed]

Entities: Health Care Reform, University of California Berkeley, Stanford University

First Reported Nov 09 2009 - Updated Nov 09 2009 - 1 Documents

In a world with a broken Congress ...

Fred Hiatt's column today calls the House's health-care reform bill "a step closer to bankruptcy." But he's not really talking about the House's health-care reform bill, which he admits the Congressional Budget Office has assessed as not only deficit ... [Published Nov 09 2009 by Ezra Klein]

Entities: Fred Hiatt, Uwe Reinhardt, Medicare, Taxes, George W Bush

First Reported Oct 01 2009 - Updated Oct 02 2009 - 1 Documents

NYT Touts Swiss Insurance System; Ignores Its Own Expert

photo by rdiggle The New York Times has produced, often on its Prescriptions blog, a number of useful summaries of health care systems in other countries. However, today's paper contains an editorial in the guise of news entitled, Swiss ... [Published Oct 01 2009 by Firedoglake]

Entities: Uwe Reinhardt, Health Care, Ignorance, Health Insurance, Medicare

Quotes

..." Uwe Reinhardt, a Princeton University economist, said. "what really drives it is the cost trend of health care, which is composed in part of utilization and in part of prices. … in our market-driven system, a doctor or hospital essentially charges the maximum they can get" he added (Boulton, 3/13)

Economists, Dems Differ On Who's To Blame For Insurers' Rate Hikes [Kaiser Health News - Mar 15 2010]

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Economists, Dems Differ On Who's To Blame For I... [Kaiser Health News - Mar 15 2010]
Insurers alone can't be blamed for rates, econo... [RBC Dain Rauscher - Mar 14 2010]
Insurers alone can't be blamed for rates, econo... [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Mar 14 2010]
More clarity in regulations would lead to less ... [Fierce Healthcare - Mar 07 2010]
A Decoy Gambit? [Slate Magazine - Feb 23 2010]
Health Reform: An Online Guide [Slate Magazine - Feb 23 2010]
Who's the Bad Guy in Insurance Premium Hikes? [AOL - Feb 20 2010]
Soft Center: Bayh’s Shocker Leaves Dems With Fe... [ABC News - Feb 16 2010]
What is Obvious to Everyone Else -- By: John Hood [National Review - Feb 15 2010]
Is Health Care Overhaul Doomed to Failure? Expe... [ABC News - Feb 15 2010]
Health Bills STILL Under Microscope [Kaiser Health News - Feb 12 2010]
Economists Tout Health Care Reform In Letter To... [The Huffington Post \| Full News Feed - Nov 18 2009]
Markets, Not Mandates [REASON Online - Jul 29 2009]

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Uwe Reinhardt and “Evidence Based Administration” [Health Business Blog - Mar 05 2010] Princeton economist Uwe Reinhardt has a thought-provoking piece in the New York Times (How Much Fraud and Abuse Is There in U.S. Health Care?) in which he argues ...
Link exchange [Free exchange - Feb 19 2010] TODAY's recommended economics writing.Alan Blinder on getting the most bang for your job-creation buck. (Washington Post)Paul Krugman and Uwe Reinhardt on NYTimes.com ...
Ten Things Worth Reading, Mostly Economics: Feb... [J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All ... - Feb 19 2010] 1) Jean Eaglesham and Daniel Pimlott: Riposte by 60 economists to calls for cuts: More than 60 leading economists... creating a dividing line within the ...
The Political Theater Of The Health Care Summit [Wake up America - Feb 15 2010] Obama wants the GOP to climb aboard his very own Titanic, named Obamacare, doomed to sink and the iceberg it has hit, is American opposition, the voters, who are ...
What is Obvious to Everyone Else -- By: John Hood [The Corner on National Review Online - Feb 15 2010] Perhaps the president and his strategists have an elaborate parliamentary scheme in mind, as some suggest, but I tend to think that they are just having a hard time ...

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Uwe Reinhardt Discusses Health-Care Overhaul Ou... [Bloomberg - YouTube - Nov 18 2009]