My New Book Is Out
My new book, Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis, has been released. Order your copy here. I welcome your feedback in the comments, as always.
To get a better understanding of the main topics in the book, check out the two-part piece I wrote for Health Affairs Blog here and here.
I just checked out the book on Amazon. Although the content may be Priceless, Amazon requires remuneration before it will process your order and ship your book. I was pleased to discover the Kindle edition is about half the cost of the hardcover edition (as it should be).
This book outlines some important public policy implications that those in government need to be aware of.
I read it. Great book!
The title of this book, “Priceless,” has a double meaning: you cannot put a price on good health; and the health care industry does not use prices to ration services the way other industries do. Public health experts and advocates for the poor generally dislike using prices in health care (which economists call “price-rationing”) because advocates believe price is a barrier to accessing care. Yet, opponents of using prices generally ignore the benefits of the price system… Read the
rest of my reviewat Amazon.
“We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure…survival” -JFK
If that’s the case, and good health is priceless, how does a price on services ration them? Doesn’t “Priceless” imply a flat demand curve, meaning the quantity demanded will not change at any price and therefore the price is an arbitrary method of rationing that will only stop from buying the service those who don’t have the money for it, AKA the poor?