Regina E. Herzlinger is the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. She has conducted extensive research on health care, including her early predictions of the unraveling of managed care and the rise of both consumer-driven health care and health care focused factories . She is also the author of Who Killed Health Care: America’s $2 Trillion Problem—and the Consumer-Driven Cure.
Of course.
After all, providing universal coverage, at, say, an average cost of $5,000 per person, will cost at most $250 billion annually and likely less because some of the uninsured can afford to pay part of the cost of their health insurance—a quarter earn more than $40,000- and many are lower-cost young people.
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