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Uwe Reinhardt
My interests lie in the study of health care economics, from the broadest questions of overall health care spending and the problem of the uninsured, to the micro issues of payment to physicians, systems of reimbursement to hospitals and physicians, and the future of the Medicare program. The United States spends twice as much per capita on health care as Canada does. Inequalities in expenditures by regions within the United States are striking: we spent twice as much on the Medicaid population in the southern states as we do in the Midwest, yet we see no discernable impact on the quality of care or clinical outcomes. I have focused attention on the problems of our healthcare information infrastructure – not only for more efficient use of our resources but for our ability to even evaluate how we are spending our health care dollars – and the appropriate role for federal subsidies for health insurance for the uninsured. Visit WebsitePublications Regulating Managed Care
What should be government's role in a market-oriented health care system? What's the appropriate amount of regulation? Who should regulate-states, federal government, or market forces? What role do the courts play in this regulation? Are there existing models that might guide leaders in designing an effective regulatory structure? Welcome to the great managed care debate. In Regulating Managed Care, twenty-six of the nation's leading health policy experts give health care administrators, clinicians, and policy makers insight into the issues behind this critical exchange and provide leaders with a road map to assess the policy options available to protect the quality of our health care delivery system. |
