"His book is clear, concise, and eminently readable; he writes
in straightforward English prose, not economic jargon; he is
modest, posing questions more often than he answers them; and he
considers alternatives to most of the policy options he discusses.
I warmly recommend his book to general readers who want to
understand what economics has to say about health care."
-Arnold S. Relman, M.D., Harvard Medical School, writing in The
New England Journal of Medicine [Full text of
review]
"This is one of the most important books written on health
care."
- Tyler Cowen, Economist and New York Times
columnist
"Crisis of Abundance is full of useful insights, the best
being Kling's schema for understanding the value of medical care.
Kling offers some innovative ideas on how to introduce more
consumerism into health care. It is ideas like these that will move
us toward a more market-based system of health care and save us
from the disaster that is a single-payer system."
-David Hogberg, The American Spectator [Full
text of review]
"For a fresh analysis of health care, people ought to look to
economist Arnold Kling's new book, Crisis of Abundance.
Although it offers no easy villain-versus-hero narrative or
solution to the challenges of funding health care, it diagnoses the
problem with precision."
-Sally Pipes, National Review Online, President of the
Pacific Research Institute
"I enjoyed the book's explanation of how various economic factors
play out in American medicine. Kling wishes to raise the level of
understanding of the realities, issues, and tradeoffs in
health-care financing. I believe he has accomplished this, and I
definitely have learned much from reading his book."
-Mark J. Kellen, M.D., Journal of American Physicians and
Surgeons
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"This is a lucid and persuasive book-one of the most accessible
guides I have ever seen to what is wrong with our health care
system and how we might fix it. People of all ideological
persuasions will find it enlightening and helpful."
-Daniel Shaviro, Wayne Perry Professor of Taxation, New York
University School of Law, author of Who Should Pay for
Medicare?
"Crisis of Abundance pinpoints precisely where our health
care spending has gone wrong. An emphasis on high-cost 'premium
medicine' of marginal benefit, coupled with consumers shielded from
its cost, has left us spending more for less. But Kling does more
than offer criticisms-he also offers solutions. It's the Back to
the Future of healthcare economics."
-Sydney Smith, publisher of Medpundit (www.medpundit.blogspot.com)
