Health Care Reform Debate

Follow the health care dollar

We know we spend a lot of dollars on health care, but where does all that money actually go? That lack of detailed knowledge about one of our biggest expenses seems to not even trouble many consumers of health care, until they have to pay for it themselves.

Guests

• Uwe Reinhardt: Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.
• Elizabeth McGlynn: associate director at RAND Health. She directs the COMPARE initiative which looks at the costs of health care proposals.

Resources

• RAND: Health care COMPARE
• About Uwe Reinhardt
• Prometheus Payment Inc
• Blue Cross of Massachusetts