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Three Reasons Economist Uwe Reinhardt Blames Purchasers for Everything
Leah Binder in The Health Care Blog Link to more items from this source
[Opinion]
June 30, 2013

"Reinhardt is rightfully troubled by a decade of escalating health care cost growth under employment-based health insurance. But seized by Actor-Observer Bias, Reinhardt blames this problem not on the world of health care that he played such an influential role in over the past few decades, but on external forces, the employers who purchase health care.... In fact, these employers aren't real people; they are straw men created to justify the Professor's contortionist logic that health cost inflation has nothing to do with actions of the health care industry itself."  MORE >>

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