By Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein
New York: Portfolio/Penguin, 2023.
Pp. xxii, 275, $29 hardcover.
Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein are easily two of the best health economists of their generation. They have each spent twenty years churning out insightful papers published in the top economics journals. As a young health economist, I would read their papers and admire how well they addressed the technical issues at hand, but I was always left wondering what they thought about the big picture of health care in the United States. Their papers generally seem to come from a technocratic centrist point of view, but do not make it obvious what they would think about major health insurance reform proposals like Medicare for All. In , Einav and Finkelstein finally explain what they really think. As you would expect from top academic health economists, the book provides a highly accurate description of the current U.S. health system; unlike what you might expect, it is also
