Comments on: Is conflict of interest influencing Uwe Reinhardt’s health care analysis?

By: Dr. Anonymous

Dr. Anonymous — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:04:09 +0000

I doubt Uwe Reindhardt has much of a problem of conflict of interest. If you read his posts and watch his interviews you will find that he goes far to try to keep objective in his points. The very statements he makes are game changing and will probably be to dissadvantage of any company or organization.

If you read other articles by Dr. Reinhardt, you will find that he complains about the insurance’s companies lack of transparency in transfer prices to Physicians and Hospitals, even that he approached somebody he knew from an insurer and the person didn’t want to answer; he posted talked about this in congress, which I bet the insurance industry doesn’t want to be heard.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:44:00 +0000

Shocking?

Not really. If one were to follow an "expert's" paper trail -- their world-view can be determined, pretty quickly.

Erza Klein? Pro-government.

Uwe? Pro-government.

Commonwealth Fund? C'mon .. that's so obvious, Vanna White doesn't even need to turn the letter "L".

By: Manalive

Manalive — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 16:00:00 +0000

I don’t share Kevin’s admiration for Uwe Reinhardt.
The main thrust of Reinhardt’s article is that EMRs will afford “transparency” (whatever happened to “privacy”?); and the authorities will be able to calculate a physician’s ratio of dollars spent to the level of sickness treated.
Once again Reinhardt has seen the future: Soviet farming.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 12:03:00 +0000

The more I read about this Resource Based Relative Value System Update Committee the more I think greater transparency is needed.

We don’t hesitate to squewer this fellow for his associations, but what are the disclosures from this committee?