John R. Graham
Tuesday, March 10, 2009Entitlement Mentality? California Pharmacies Block 5% Medicaid CutFocussed 2" in front of their noses, drugstores accept government dependency By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareI think that health-care providers who want to survive and thrive in the days to come need a new, self-imposed, guideline for their businesses: "If government revenue is so important to you that a 5% cut drives you into court to recover it, you are too dependent on government ... more »»
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Friday, March 20, 2009Los Angeles' King-Harbor Hospital Shows the Cost of Government-Monopoly Health CareWhy would any politician want this as his legacy? By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareEarlier this month, state and local officials announced an agreement to re-open the Martin Luther King, Jr.-Harbor Hospital in LA's Watts neighborhood in 2012. Los Angeles County ... more »»
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009St. Patrick's Day Health-Care News from IrelandER charges up 50%, visits drop 5% By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health Care(OK, so I am a little late for St. Paddy's Day: It's the thought that counts.) The Stockholm Network's weekly bulletin for March 18 is not yet online, but it came into my e-mail with a fascinating bit of news from ... more »»
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Monday, March 16, 2009Massachusetts "Universal" Health Care Spends $820 Million to Save $250 MillionState To Take-Over Pricing and Access to Care By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareSurely, even the New York Times can figure out that spending $820 million on the Bay State's Commonwealth Care "universal" health-care plan, in order to save $250 million in uncompensated hospital care, is not a good trade-off. Not according to today's more »»
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Friday, March 13, 2009Crisis of the Overinsured: They Pay Up to Twice as Much for Hospital ServicesUninsured and Self-Insured Benefit from Medical Tourism At Home By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareIn Michael E. Porter & Elizabeth Olmstead Teisberg's Redefining Health Care, they note that major health plans succeed by exploiting a competely artificial economy of scale. Because ... more »»
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009Happiness is a Warm Gun, Momma: Two New State RankingsMore measurement-tools for state policy-makers and residents By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareAs the (vain) author of the only index ranking state's health-care policies, I'm thrilled to see new scholars enter the field of measuring states according to metrics that intersect or are adjacent to the Index of Health ... more »»
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Monday, March 9, 2009Class-Action Lawsuits Gone WildNew York Settlement Exposes Flaws in Anti-Trust Law By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareBy itself, this isn't such a big deal: A non-profit hospital system in upstate New York settles a class-action lawsuit brought by a couple of nurses for $1.25 million. Plaintiffs alleged that the hospitals conspired to artificially lower nurses' wages. The Wall Street Journal ... more »»
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Friday, March 6, 2009Is Big Pharma's Policy of Appeasement Backfiring?Britain's National Health Service finally covers Pfizer's Sutent - but not for every indication By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareSome folks (here and there) have been pretty shocked by an more »»
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Thursday, March 5, 2009John R. Graham on ObamaCare on NPRAudio available: Graham joins a panel discussing today's health-care lobbyist fest in DC By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareMichael Krasny, Professor Alan Enthoven, & Professor Helen Halpin go back and forth on Obama's health-care effort. I think my high-water mark was referring to the health insurers, pharmaceutical companies, and corporate America as a "coalition of the unwilling"! more »»
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Thursday, March 5, 2009Bailout Letdown: "Stimulus" Won't Rescue Medi-CalCalifornians dependent on state for health care to lose services By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareIf there's anything sadder than individuals being dependent on the state for health care, it's the state being dependent on the federal government. It's a shame that Gov. Schwarzenegger didn't join Gov. Sanford (SC), Gov. Perry (TX) and a few others who plan to more »»
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