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, July 30, 2008

Will Another California "Safety Net" Hospital Shut Down? 

Patients Suffer When Hospitals Become Dependent on Government

By John R. Graham

Filed As:  Health Care

I have written a lot about the collapse of Los Angeles' Martin Luther King, Jr-Harbor Hospital, a hospital almost totally dependent on government funding and under government control.

Now, it looks like the same tragic ... more »»

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Gov. Schwarzenegger's War on Choice in Health Insurance Heats Up 

Collaboration with Dem Legislators Will Squeeze Californians

By John R. Graham

Filed As:  Health Care

Ever since Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's California Health Care Deforminator ABX1 1 stumbled just short of the finish line last January, he and his Democratic allies in the legislature have been looking to move ... more »»

Monday, August 4, 2008

New Los Angeles Ordinance Turns Hospitals Into Homeless Shelters 

When will hospitals stop appeasing government?

By John R. Graham

Filed As:  Health Care

Enterprises that "collaborate" with government generally find that the costs come to outweigh the benefits.  Those who seek a "seat at the table" often end up being the main course.  (Thanks to Bridgett Wagner of the Heritage Foundation for the metaphor.)  And in the end,... more »»

Friday, August 1, 2008

Another Health Care Poll: Surprising Results, Predictable Press Release 

California poll shows crisis not as bad as you think

By John R. Graham

Filed As:  Health Care

John Goodman, PhD, has dissected a national survey by the Center for Studying Health System Change, which shows (despite CHSHC's "spin") that the share of uninsured Americans concerned with the cost of their health care ... more »»

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Making It Harder for Smokers to Get Affordable Health Care 

Another Grand Idea From the Folks Behind San Francisco's Healthy Access Plan

By John R. Graham

Filed As:  Health Care

I've spilled a lot of virtual ink on San Francisco's tax-hiking proposal for so-called "universal" health care, the Healthy Access Plan.  But driving up costs for small business is hardly the only mischief ... more »»

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Healthy San Francisco Plan Finally Signs Up Some Hospitals 

But For How Long Will They Really Treat Folks For Free?

By John R. Graham

Filed As:  Health Care

San Francisco's tax-hiking and opaque pay-or-play business tax to fund its public health bureaucracy claims to have finally overcome one of the major criticisms that I had made of it.  Namely, that it did ... more »»

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

California's Health Insurance Rescissions: Hospitals Get Their Pound of Flesh 

Maybe Anthem Blue Cross didn't break the law, but it sure stuck the providers

By John R. Graham

Filed As:  Health Care

Yesterday, I asked the quasi-rhetorical question: "Why did California's campaign against Anthem Blue Cross collapse?", addressing state regulators' failure to collect a $1 million fine for Anthem Blue ... more »»

Monday, July 7, 2008

Why Did California's Campaign Against Anthem Blue Cross Collapse? 

How about this: Maybe the health plan did not break the law?

By John R. Graham

Filed As:  Health Care

I have written a series of blog entries about California's health care regulators attacking health plans for "rescission," which the regulators have equated with "post-claims underwriting." The ... more »»

Thursday, July 3, 2008

You've Done A Great Job - Don't Bother Coming Back Tomorrow 

The Lights Go Dim on the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council

By John R. Graham

Filed As:  Health Care

OK, let me get this straight: We've been critically following the passage of the autism mandate in Pennsylvania for almost a year now.  It more »»

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Unbalanced Medical Billing in California: The (Wrong?) Regulator Attacks 

Department of Managed Health Care Cannot Keep Up With Health Care Changes

By John R. Graham

Filed As:  Health Care

If the media want to mock an enterprise that cannot manage the pace of change, they describe its alleged similarities to buggy-whip manufacturers after the dawn of the automobile age.

But what happens to the government agency that regulates the buggy-whip manufacturers? Obviously, the ... more »»

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