John R. Graham
Wednesday, June 3, 2009New Rescission Regs Will HurtInsurance Commissioner Poizner, in election mode, goes populist for the LA Times By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareIt's been a while since the topic of "rescission" of individual health-insurance policies hit the headlines in California. Los Angeles Times reporter Lisa Girion and colleagues took credit for a previous ... more »»
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Tuesday, June 2, 2009Patients' Choice Act: "Exchanges"An "exchange" looks like a "connector" with even less understanding of risk By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareYesterday, I wrote critically about the "auto-enrollment" feature that the federal government would require states to institute if it passed the more »»
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Monday, June 1, 2009Patients' Choice Act and "Auto-Enrollment"A solution that invites more complexity than it solves. By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareOn May 20, the insightful policy analysts Joe Antos and Grace-Marie Turner editorialized in favor of the "Patients' Choice Act" in the Wall Street ... more »»
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Friday, May 29, 2009Testifying on Health Freedom in ArizonaLimiting government power and maximizing individual choice By John R. GrahamFiled As: Ballot questions (health), Health CareThe other day, I reported on my participation at a legislative hearing discussing a proposed amendment to the Arizona constitution that would prevent the government from eliminating any citizen's ability to resist being conscripted exclusively ... more »»
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Thursday, May 28, 2009Expanded Coverage=Less Access to CareMassachusetts data show decrease in access since "reform" By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareI've always said that the closer the state gets to "guaranteeing" "universal" coverage, actual access to care decreases. This has been the case in Massachusetts, since the 2006 reform that mandated health insurance for all. A recent white ... more »»
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009Health Freedom Returns in ArizonaHCR 2014 resurrects Prop 101's attempt to limit government power By John R. GrahamFiled As: Ballot questions (health), Health CareLast November, Arizona's Proposition 101 was narrowly defeated at the ballot box. Prop 101 would have prevented the government from enrolling people in a government or private health plan against their choice, or ... more »»
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Thursday, May 21, 2009Health-Care Union Cartel Rises UpSEIU, California Nurses Association deal a bad sign for health freedom By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareYesterday's announcement by the Service Employees International Union that it had inked a deal with the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee to collude in support of the Orwellian ... more »»
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009The Few, The Proud, The California Tax-KillersSEIU caves in on Medi-Cal bailout, but it won't be enough. Next stop: tobacco tax? By John R. GrahamFiled As: Ballot questions (health), Health CareA few dozen Californians bravely strode forth and slayed Gov. Schwarzenegger's tax dragon. Five tax-hiking propositions that the governor and other Sacramento politicians tried to con us into believing would fix the budget deficit failed to get past the voters. (The solution is to shrink ... more »»
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009States, U.S. Hike Rx PricesMulti-state suit against Wyeth proves Government cannot stand competition By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareI'd bet that Avis, Hertz and other car-rental businesses pay a lot less per car than I do. After all, they buy entire fleets and I buy only one car every few years. Imagine if I could get a law passed that made it illegal for cars to be sold to different customers for different ... more »»
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Monday, May 18, 2009Do Small Businesses Need a Health-Insurance Exchange?It can't hurt, but it does not address pooling problems By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareAnyone in libertarian-conservative health-policy circles knows that we can tie ourselves in knots pretty quickly over the idea of a health-insurance "exchange". If the federal government amended the federal tax-code to give American families the same ability to buy health insurance that ... more »»
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