John R. Graham

John R. Graham is Director of Health Care Studies at the Pacific Research Institute. He is the author of the U.S. Index of Health Ownership, the only project to rank all 50 states’ health laws and regulations according to free-market principles; and the editor of a book addressing What States Can Do to Reform Health Care: A Free Market Primer, to which he contributed a chapter on pharmaceutical cost containment. He is also the primary author of the monthly Health Policy Prescriptions series, and the Healthy California series of briefing papers.  He has also written numerous articles on intellectual property law, financing of hospitals, health savings accounts, and other aspects of health policy for a number of periodicals, including the Wall Street Journal.Mr. Graham speaks frequently on health care reform on radio and television, and at conferences in the United States, Canada, and Europe. He has also worked as a management consultant and investment banker in Canada and Europe and has previously served as an infantry officer in the Canadian Army in Canada, Germany, and Cyprus.He received his M.B.A. from the London Business School (England) and his B.A. (with Honors) in economics and commerce from the Royal Military College of Canada.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

"Health-Care rationing is Inevitable": Letters in the Wall Street Journal 

Health-care elites unaware of health reforms other than government monopoly

By John R. Graham

Filed As:  Health Care

Because my annual performance review is coming up soon, I think it timely to praise an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal a couple of days ago Sally Pipes, who happens to be my employer.

But while I come to praise Ms. Pipes,... more »»

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Health-Care Rationing is Inevitable? Letters in the Wall Street Journal 

Health-care elites desire more government control, less choice in health care

By John R. Graham

Filed As:  Health Care

Because my annual performance review is coming up, I thought I'd praise an op-ed that Sally Pipes (my CEO) wrote in the Wall Street Journal on December 30.

But while I come to praise Ms. Pipes, others come to ... more »»

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Consumer-Directed Health Care in Cuba (for Americans) 

Michael Moore's marketing gift to the Havana hospital

By John R. Graham

Filed As:  Health Care

It's hard to believe it's been a year and a quarter since PRI hosted an event to discuss Michael Moore's SiCKO, his "mockumentary" about the American health-care ... more »»

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

How To Pay Doctors? A Lawyer Chimes In 

Lawyer's dismissal of billable hours holds lesson for physicians

By John R. Graham

Filed As:  Health Care

I have (gratefully) never had to engage a trial lawyer, but I know that many clients are very frustrated by the common practice of charging by billable hours.  Writing in Forbes, Mr. Evan R. Chesler of  Cravath, Swaine, & Moore, LLP, says that his colleagues should "more »»

Monday, December 29, 2008

Canadian Health Care in Crisis: Eyewitness Account 

Final thoughts on returning from the Great White North

By John R. Graham

Filed As:  Health Care

Loathe as I am to traffic in anecdotes, I cannot resist recounting a conversation that I had around a friend's dinner table while in Canada for the holidays last week.

The crisis of government-monopoly health care in Canada is fast coming to a crescendo.  My previous employer, the Fraser ... more »»

Saturday, December 27, 2008

Private Health Insurance in Canada 

Aggressive Marketing to Individuals

By John R. Graham

Filed As:  Health Care

Returning to Canada for Christmas, I was surprised to see that the country's life and health insurers were lobbying the government for health savings accounts and pressing ever closer for the right to compete ... more »»

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Health Savings Accounts in Canada - Ground Zero of Single Payer?! 

Private insurers push for bigger role

By John R. Graham

Filed As:  Health Care

Born and raised in Canada, by the time I got to adulthood I was pretty fed up with my contemporaries' claim that Canada's uniqueness, relative to the U.S., was so-called "universal" health care.  (I was born in 1962, so my contemporaries and I had no conscious experience of ... more »»

Friday, December 19, 2008

California Republican Legislators Find Some Health Dollars 

Two "earmarked" funds in surplus: Did voters approve too much tax?

By John R. Graham

Filed As:  Ballot questions (health)

As California continues to teeter on insolvency, Republican legislators have proposed a budget amendment that transfers some funds from two health-care programs that are in surplus!

Surplus? How the heck did that happen? ... more »»

Thursday, December 18, 2008

"I'd like to buy the world a Coke, and keep its taxes high" 

NY Times columnist peddles errors about taxing soft drinks

By John R. Graham

Filed As:  Health Care

When I was a kid, the jingle went: "I'd like to buy the world a Coke, and keep it company; I'd like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony..."  Apparently, the composers were motivated by a ... more »»

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Medicaid's Poverty Trap: Learning the Right Lesson 

Excess Hospitalizations A Result of Fragmented Coverage

By John R. Graham

Filed As:  Health Care

The Annals of Internal Medicine has an original article demonstrating that patients who had interrupted access to Medicaid in California (Medi-Cal) were more likely to be hospitalized than those who were constantly enrolled ... more »»

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