John R. Graham
Monday, June 9, 2008Schwarzenegger Supporter Advocates Government Monopoly Health CareUnion Boss: "I pledge...Canadian...health care..." By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareOne of Gov. Schwarzenegger's reasons for his Health Care Deforminator ABX1 1, which would have imposed a massive tax hike to fund ... more »»
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Friday, June 6, 2008Cultural Revolution in San Francisco's Health Access Plan!Public Health Bureaucracy Will Teach Your Child to Touch Her Toes! By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareBeing Friday, I thought I'd lay off the heavy analysis and have some fun with my old bugaboo, San Francisco's pointless and expensive Health Access Plan. As discussed before, I am at a loss to understand what this program achieves, ... more »»
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008California Budget Revision Proves It: You Can't Trust the State With Health CareBut those dependent on government programs refuse to see it By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareAs California struggles to get control of its budget deficit, Governor Schwarzenegger (who as recently as January collaborated with Democrats to almost wrangle a $15 billion health care tax and spending increase through the ... more »»
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Thursday, June 5, 2008Waiting Lists? Hospital Closures? Too Few Doctors? ...Canada? No: Los AngelesGovernment-run health care a disaster on either side of the border By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareAn appalling job of reporting in today's New York Times, about the consequences to Los Angeles' poorest residents of closing the county-run Martin Luther King, Jr.-Harbor Hospital ... more »»
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Wednesday, June 4, 2008Don't Get Ill in Illinois: State Medical Society Wants to Reduce Patients' ChoicesFederal Trade Commission rips bill to hobble retail clinics By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareAt the request of an Illinois state representative, the Federal Trade Commission has cast its eye over HB 5372, an appalling bill that threatens to reduce ... more »»
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Tuesday, June 3, 2008California Health Care Deforminator ABX1 1 Rises from the Dead - In Bits & PiecesEven Sacramento Republicans caving in on health reform By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareIn many horror movies, the hero kills the zombie only to find that the baddie's hand he chopped off keeps crawling towards him, relentless in its quest to strangle the living. Some of the health care bills moving through the California Legislature remind me of that sort of scene. The state ... more »»
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Monday, June 2, 2008Unbalanced Billing in California: No Easy AnswerBut it's past time for creative solutions: Here's a suggestion By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareOne area of health care where hospitals and doctors face off against health plans, without any satisfactory resolution, is providers' "balance billing" patients who present at out-of-network emergency rooms. Because the hospital is not in the patient's health plans' network, ... more »»
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Thursday, May 22, 2008Florida Fumbles A Fine Opportunity for Health ReformYou Can Vote At 18, But You're Not Competent to Buy A Health Plan Until 30 By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareWe've had some positive chatter about Governor Crist and the Republican-majority legislature's health reform. Sure, they've got a couple of things right: lightening up on hospital Certificate of Need, permitting ... more »»
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008San Francisco Health Access Plan Shakedown?City's "Universal" Health Plan Means More Lawsuits, Not More Care By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareI have long alleged that the real (unstated) objective of San Francisco's Health Access Plan was to direct more tax money and power to the City's public health bureaucracy, and the experience so far does nothing to ... more »»
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Monday, May 12, 2008Advocate of State-Monopoly Health Care: "We Are Winning"Will Health Plans Continue to Aid and Abet the Enemy? By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareCommenting on Gov. Schwarzenegger's recent musing that he would like to re-launch last year's failed tax-hiking, choice-limiting, health "reform", State Senator Sheila Kuehl delivered a chilling ... more »»
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