10 Quotes by Uwe Reinhardt

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

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

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.

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.

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

The [Hobby Lobby Supreme Court] ruling raises the question of why, uniquely in the industrialized world, Americans have for so long favored an arrangement in health insurance that endows their employers with the quasi-parental power to choose the options that employees may be granted in the market for health insurance.

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.

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

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 soul.