John R. Graham
Thursday, May 14, 2009Free Prescriptions for UnemployedNew Pfizer program addresses fragmentation in U.S. health care By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareI am supposed to be a free-market, conservative, capitalist, health-policy analyst, but seem to have spent a lot of my recent time attacking some of the antics of private-sector interests who have given up a lot of ground on the ... more »»
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009Health-Care Hold Up in the Golden StateWhy Obama Won't Give Schwarzenegger his Medicaid Bailout By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareThe Service Employees International Union (SEIU) demanded that President Obama freeze the share of the so-called "stimulus" money destined for California's Medicaid program (Medi-Cal), because Gov. Schwarzenegger cut wages for home-health workers. I think there's more going on: ... more »»
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Wednesday, May 6, 2009Massachusetts Health Reform: Hospital Profits Cut in Half"Universal" health care: Capital investments delayed, surgeries deferred By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareI'm going to miss the Boston Globe, if the New York Times decides to shut it down. Its coverage of the consequences of the 2006 state law mandating "universal" coverage has been excellent. (Indeed, that might be one reason that the New York Pravda ... more »»
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Friday, May 8, 2009Will Politicians Stop Patients From Reforming Health Care?Change is happening: Hospitals learning they work for patients By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareWhile state and federal politicians agitate to change the way Government controls health care, patients are reforming health care themselves, thanks to previous reforms that allowed them to take more control of their health-care dollars. Although this started in the 1990s, with Health ... more »»
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Thursday, May 7, 2009Wall Street Journal Joins the Media Chorus on "Universal" Health CareMisleading comparison of German & U.S. Unemployment & Uninsurance By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareWhen the Wall Street Journal starts fretting over the uninsured, we have a problem. This morning's paper featured two recently unemployed men: one in Illinois and one in the town of Hohenlockstedt in the German state ... more »»
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009Al Gore on Conflict of InterestDoctors, hospitals, & medical schools should defend themselves like the former Veep does By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareThe Institute of Medicine released a report excoriating drug and medical-device makers for sponsoring medical education and the like. Specialist medical societies immediately collaborated on a joint press release, where they basically ... more »»
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009A Frog Slowly Boiling in Water: The Recent History of Medicaid Physician PaymentsDoctors bear much of the cost of Big Government health care. By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareTo keep doing the same thing over and over again and expect a different result is insane. Nevertheless, physicians still think that by lobbying the government for higher fees, they will succeed in improving the government's unwillingness to pay them adequately. One would think ... more »»
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Friday, April 24, 2009More medical price fixing in FloridaPaying out-of-network physicians: A problem the state cannot solve By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareLast year, the Florida Medical Association managed to get a bill passed that significantly tilted the playing field away from health plans and in favor of physicians. However, one of their key provisions was dropped ... more »»
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009Making the Health IT Bailout Work For You!What do to if you "don't have the resources to sit around watching C-CPAN." By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health Care, Information TechnologyBack on April 17, the Wall Street Journal's Elizabeth Williamson reported (online subscribers only) that ... more »»
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Friday, April 17, 2009Treating Cancer: When In Doubt, Let the State DecideIgnoring the costs & benefits, Oregon lays on yet another mandatory benefit By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareWhile health insurers pay for diagnosis, surgery, and intravenous chemotherapy for cancer patients, they balk at paying for more »»
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