We are the only nation where paper is still the mainstay in the private insurance industry.

- Uwe Reinhardt

Americans keep telling me they hate government. I always tell them: "Man, I've got a country for you: Go to Afghanistan; they don't have one." So if …

- Uwe Reinhardt

The ACA is an ugly patch on an ugly system - and I don't think it's worth mentioning in the context of price or quality transparency.

- Uwe Reinhardt

The [Hobby Lobby Supreme Court] ruling raises the question of why, uniquely in the industrialized world, Americans have for so long favored an arrang…

- Uwe Reinhardt

The issue of universal coverage is not a matter of economics. Little more than 1 percent of GDP assigned to health could cover all. It is a matter of…

- Uwe Reinhardt

Americans believe that the private sector is always more efficient and cheaper than big government, and particularly when you go among Republicans, e…

- Uwe Reinhardt

The bad things are that our financing of health care is really a moral morass. It is a moral morass in the sense that it signals to the doctors and h…

- Uwe Reinhardt

We Americans, or half of Americans, think health care is a commodity. Other countries view health care as a social service that should be collectivel…

- Uwe Reinhardt

Massachusetts is the first state in America to reach full adulthood. The rest of America is still in adolescence.

- Uwe Reinhardt