John R. Graham

John R. Graham is Director of Health Care Studies at the Pacific Research Institute. He is the author of the U.S. Index of Health Ownership, the only project to rank all 50 states’ health laws and regulations according to free-market principles; and the editor of a book addressing What States Can Do to Reform Health Care: A Free Market Primer, to which he contributed a chapter on pharmaceutical cost containment. He is also the primary author of the monthly Health Policy Prescriptions series, and the Healthy California series of briefing papers.  He has also written numerous articles on intellectual property law, financing of hospitals, health savings accounts, and other aspects of health policy for a number of periodicals, including the Wall Street Journal.Mr. Graham speaks frequently on health care reform on radio and television, and at conferences in the United States, Canada, and Europe. He has also worked as a management consultant and investment banker in Canada and Europe and has previously served as an infantry officer in the Canadian Army in Canada, Germany, and Cyprus.He received his M.B.A. from the London Business School (England) and his B.A. (with Honors) in economics and commerce from the Royal Military College of Canada.

Friday, September 28, 2007

Health Insurance Mandates: We Get Mail! 

An Exchange With An Appalled Autism Advocate

Filed As:  Health Care

I was going to blog about Michael Moore on yesterday's Oprah (it's on YouTube), but it was too depressing - especially Karen Ignagni of AHIP, the health insurers' trade association, asking Oprah's viewers to call their federal legislators and demand they pass SCHIP (state children's ... more »»

Thursday, September 27, 2007

ERISA versus States' Rights for Health Insurance 

Can conservatives square the regulatory circle?

Filed As:  Health Care

If you are like me, a free-market health policy guru, one thing keeps you awake at night: Should federal laws, especially ERISA (the Employee Retirement income Secturity Act) pre-empt state laws and regulations governing health insurance?

No? You have better things to worry about?

Well, ... more »»

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Veni, Vidi, VETO! 

The CHIPs are Down - President Bush Must Raise the Ante

Filed As:  Health Care

Yesterday, the House of Representatives passed a bill to pry more American children away from health coverage that their families prefer and rope them into government dependency via SCHIP (state children’s health ... more »»

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Maryland's Medical Malpractice Mess 

Subsidies are a Weak Substitute for Real Reform

Filed As:  Health Care

In 2003, Maryland was suffering a serious case of medical malpractice abuse: litigation was so out of control that physicians could not pay their premiums.  Unfortunately, instead of enacting responsible med-mal reform, as then Gov. Ehrlich proposed, legislators decided to shift the pain from ... more »»

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

IHOP Avenged? State Variation in Health Spending 

Experts Ignoring Root Causes Causes Confusion

Filed As:  Health Care

The Index of Health Ownership holds that big government spending and over regulation are harmful to people's health.  Unfortunately, many in academia are unwilling to consider this hypothesis.  So, they ... more »»

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Stockholm Syndrome in California's Business Community 

Another Employer Group Begs to Be Taxed

Filed As:  Health Care

Although Governor Schwarzenegger's health reform plan has staggered along since January without enlisting any legislator to propose enabling legislation, and the Legislature recessed with the governor guaranteeing to veto the Democratic majority's alternative, a ... more »»

Thursday, September 13, 2007

Hasn't Massachusetts Abolished the Uninsured? 

Didn't Safety-Net Hospitals Get the Memo?

Filed As:  Health Care

If you have any doubt that the wheels have come off Commonwealth Care, the Massachusetts health reform that former Gov. Romney signed inApril 2006, read the latest from the Alliance of Massachusetts Safety Net Hospitals,which is upset that the state proposes to “cut millions of dollars from annual ... more »»

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Gadzooks! A Clever Counter to Convenient Clinics 

A doctor responds by changing his practice instead of whining to the state

Filed As:  Health Care

So, there is at least one light in the darkness of organized medicine’s frantic attacks on convenient clinics – those storefront operations, often staffed by nurse practitioners and paid directly by patients, that offer some diagnoses and treatments, ... more »»

Monday, September 10, 2007

Texas Chainsaw Massacre of Hospital Bureaucracy ---Or Not? 

Patients, Not Politicians, Must Drive Price Transparency

Filed As:  Health Care

Nobody should need convincing that one big obstacle to consumer-directed health care is that we don't know what health services cost. Worse, nobody wants to tell us. Over the last couple of years, this has led well-meaning, often conservative, legislators in many states to support legislation that ... more »»

Friday, September 7, 2007

How Many Kids Could An SCHIP Cure, If An SCHIP Could Cure Kids? 

A lot fewer than claimed in a recent medical journal article from Arizona!

Filed As:  Health Care

Tucson’s Arizona Daily Star recently ran an op-ed by a pediatrician, Dr. Kevin Dveirin, who is very upset about President Bush’s proposed new rules requiring states to enroll 95 percent of poor kids in state children’s ... more »»

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