
Wednesday, July 30, 2008Will Another California "Safety Net" Hospital Shut Down?Patients Suffer When Hospitals Become Dependent on Government By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareI 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 »»
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Friday, August 1, 2008Another Health Care Poll: Surprising Results, Predictable Press ReleaseCalifornia poll shows crisis not as bad as you think By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareJohn 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 »»
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008Making It Harder for Smokers to Get Affordable Health CareAnother Grand Idea From the Folks Behind San Francisco's Healthy Access Plan By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareI'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 »»
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Monday, June 30, 2008Bankruptcy of Government-Monopoly Health Care is Fiscal & MoralCalifornia's most vulnerable citizens at the mercy of state-run health care By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareCalifornia politicians like Sen. Sheila Kuehl believe that they can run health care better than Californians themselves can. Here's a question for anyone tempted to believe this: Will the government-monopoly ... more »»
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Thursday, July 10, 2008Healthy San Francisco Plan Finally Signs Up Some HospitalsBut For How Long Will They Really Treat Folks For Free? By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareSan 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 »»
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Tuesday, July 8, 2008California's Health Insurance Rescissions: Hospitals Get Their Pound of FleshMaybe Anthem Blue Cross didn't break the law, but it sure stuck the providers By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareYesterday, 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 »»
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Monday, July 7, 2008Why Did California's Campaign Against Anthem Blue Cross Collapse?How about this: Maybe the health plan did not break the law? By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareI 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 »»
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Thursday, July 3, 2008You've Done A Great Job - Don't Bother Coming Back TomorrowThe Lights Go Dim on the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareOK, 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 »»
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Wednesday, July 2, 2008Unbalanced Medical Billing in California: The (Wrong?) Regulator AttacksDepartment of Managed Health Care Cannot Keep Up With Health Care Changes By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareIf 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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Tuesday, July 1, 2008From Heart Transplants to Hairpieces: The Questionable Benefits of State Benefit MandatesNew Study Finds Higher Premiums, Lower Wages, Longer Hours, More Uninsured By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CarePRI released a new paper today, which examines one critical area where states interfere in residents' ability to buy health insurance of their choosing. According to From Heart ... more »»
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