"Uwe Ernst Reinhardt" is a professor of political economy at Princeton University and holds several positions in the healthcare industry. Reinhardt is a prominent scholar in health economics/health care economics and a frequent speaker and author on subjects ranging from the war in Iraq to the future of Medicare (United States)/Medicare.

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There's much less here than meets the ear. It's just a step in the direction that they want to go, which is to have a general shift of financial responsibility for people's lives away from institutions, be it employers or government, onto the shoulders of people themselves.

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It's a sad thing, but when I go to international conferences, there's no question the U.S. health system is the bogeyman everywhere.

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It's like a roulette wheel you bet on in Las Vegas. It's an agonizing decision.

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You have to ask what is it in America that makes people sick.

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Price (in the Swiss system) doesn't matter, because it's set by these negotiations.

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

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