{"id":117,"date":"2013-05-24T23:26:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-25T03:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=117"},"modified":"2013-05-24T23:26:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-25T03:26:00","slug":"uwe-e-reinhardt-debating-doctors-compensation-nytimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=117","title":{"rendered":"Uwe E. Reinhardt: Debating Doctors&#8217; Compensation &#8211; NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5>Debating Doctors\u2019 Compensation<\/h5>\n<p> By <a href=\"http:\/\/economix.blogs.nytimes.com\/author\/uwe-e-reinhardt\/\">UWE E. REINHARDT<\/a>    <\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/ref\/business\/economy\/reinhardt.ready.html\">Uwe E. Reinhardt<\/a> is an economics professor at Princeton. He has some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/ref\/business\/economy\/reinhardt.ready.htm\">financial interests<\/a> in the health care field.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Two themes run through the comments on previous blog posts that touched on the payment of the providers of health care. The first is that American doctors are paid too much. The second is that they are paid too little.<\/p>\n<p>Could both propositions be right? Let us explore the issue by looking at some numbers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>A nice discussion of physician compensation with some rather eye opening graphs for the uninitiated!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/economix.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/05\/24\/debating-doctors-compensation\/?pagewanted=print\">Uwe E. Reinhardt: Debating Doctors&#8217; Compensation &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#160; Debating Doctors\u2019 Compensation By UWE E. REINHARDT Uwe E. Reinhardt is an economics professor at Princeton. He has some financial interests in the health care field. Two themes run &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=117\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Uwe E. Reinhardt: Debating Doctors&#8217; Compensation &#8211; NYTimes.com&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physician-income"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}