
Monday, July 20, 2009SCHIP's Race to the Bottom13 states raid treasury to reduce kids' access to medical services By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareThe New York Times reports that 13 states have sought to bail out out their public-health bureaucracies by raiding taxpayers in the 37 other states. They have marched to the trough to take advantage of the ... more »»
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Thursday, July 9, 2009Health Plan CEO for Governor of Massachusetts?Harvard Pilgrim CEO Baker announces Republican candidacy By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareWith an announcement that will certainly have implications for the national debate on health reform, Charlie Baker, the CEO of Harvard Pilgrim HealthCare, has announced that he is a candidate for the Republican nomination for ... more »»
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Thursday, July 9, 2009Women Better Patients Than MenFascinating new findings on consumer-driven health care By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareA new study by CIGNA reports that women are 1/3 more likely to check prices of medical procedures than men are: 20% of women checked prices versus only 15% of men. Remarkably, some of them seem to ... more »»
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Wednesday, July 8, 2009Medical Bankruptcy in Canada and the U.S.By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareWhile the reported incidence of "medical bankruptcy" in the U.S. is grossly overstated, an equally unsubstantiated claim is that a single-payer, government-monopoly health system would eliminate medical ... more »»
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Tuesday, July 7, 2009Sebelius' $100 million SCHIP Marketing BailoutChildren's "advocates" belly up to the trough By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareOne of the most pathetic consequences of the federal government's drive to control children's access to medical services is the failure of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to enrol most of the kids eligible for it. In California, more »»
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Monday, July 6, 2009Is Maine Ground Zero for Health Reform?SPN member fighting for liberty in health care By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareTarren Bragdon and colleagues at the Maine Heritage Policy Center are obviously too humble to claim credit in the struggle for health freedom in Maine and the U.S. So, let me do it for them by noting today's New York Times, which runs an more »»
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009"Underinsured" in Germany?Huffington Post reader unwittingly endorses consumer-driven health care! By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareBack on April 27, Senator Tom Coburn and Professor Regina Herzlinger published an op-ed (inexplicably) in the Huffington Post. Needless to day, it generated a firestorm of comments. I was just rereading it and saw this endorsement of ... more »»
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Thursday, July 2, 2009"Universal" Care = More ER Use: An Old Lesson RelearnedBy John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareTomorrow is Independence Day, when we look back to the successful Revolution of 1776. I suppose we can't quite "celebrate" July 4, because we've surrendered much of that hard-won independence back to our home-grown political class. Speaking of our political class, if I had a ... more »»
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Wednesday, July 1, 2009Gaming Health Insurance in MassachusettsConnector's health insurance regulations fragment insurance coverage By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareI hope you don't mind if I'm a little lazy this morning and simply point you to a post by the CEO of Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare, which addresses an issue which I do not believe we ... more »»
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Monday, June 29, 2009Healthy San Francisco Model for U.S.: Sebelius, ObamaLack of choice & tax-gorged public-health bureaucracy in our future! By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareThe Sacramento Bee reports that U.S. Health & Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and President Obama have praised Mayor Gavin Newsom's Healthy San Francisco municipal bureaucracy as a model of U.S. health ... more »»
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