John R. Graham
Thursday, July 2, 2009"Universal" Care = More ER Use: An Old Lesson RelearnedBy John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareTomorrow is Independence Day, when we look back to the successful Revolution of 1776. I suppose we can't quite "celebrate" July 4, because we've surrendered much of that hard-won independence back to our home-grown political class. Speaking of our political class, if I had a ... more »»
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Wednesday, July 1, 2009Gaming Health Insurance in MassachusettsConnector's health insurance regulations fragment insurance coverage By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareI hope you don't mind if I'm a little lazy this morning and simply point you to a post by the CEO of Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare, which addresses an issue which I do not believe we ... more »»
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009"Underinsured" in Germany?Huffington Post reader unwittingly endorses consumer-driven health care! By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareBack on April 27, Senator Tom Coburn and Professor Regina Herzlinger published an op-ed (inexplicably) in the Huffington Post. Needless to day, it generated a firestorm of comments. I was just rereading it and saw this endorsement of ... more »»
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Friday, June 26, 2009Health Ownership & Failing StatesWall Street Journal notes connection between low IHOP ranking and "laughingstock legislatures" By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareToday's Wall Street Journal noted yours truly's U.S. Index of Health Ownerhip in its lead editorial. Describing the ... more »»
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Monday, June 29, 2009Healthy San Francisco Model for U.S.: Sebelius, ObamaLack of choice & tax-gorged public-health bureaucracy in our future! By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareThe Sacramento Bee reports that U.S. Health & Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and President Obama have praised Mayor Gavin Newsom's Healthy San Francisco municipal bureaucracy as a model of U.S. health ... more »»
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009Arizonans to Choose Health Freedom in 2010Senate affirms House resolution on Health Freedom as Constitutional amendment By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareAs the U.S. government rushes to pull us all into a government-run health-care system, one state is preparing to say "hands off my health care." The Arizona State Senate yesterday more »»
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009Canadian Cancer: Long-Distance CareCanadian cancer patient relies on "dunk-tank" fundraising for living expenses By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareIt's been a while since I've discussed my homeland, Canada, and I'm not usually one to traffic in horror stories of government-monopoly health care. But more »»
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Monday, June 22, 2009Rationing Medical Services By Citizens' SovietWhy should the state decide the value of a life? By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareLos Angeles Times’ Michael Hiltzik has a column that explains to laymen how the rationing of medical services occurs in government-run health systems, using the example of the Great Britain’s ... more »»
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Thursday, June 18, 2009A Margarita With Your Medicine?Opportunities for medical tourism in Mexico, free of California's dysfunctional government By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareResearch by Professor Steven P. Wallace of UCLA, and colleagues, concludes that almost a million Californian residents crossed the border into Mexico for treatment in 2004, of which half were Mexican immigrants – both legal and ... more »»
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009Obama, AMA, & Med-Mal ReformPresident's refusal to cap awards probably better in long run By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareBefore President Obama's speech to the AMA yesterday, there was some speculation that he would offer a federal "fix" of punitive damages in medical-malpractice cases in return for the doctors' endorsing a so-called "public option" for health insurance (in reality, another ... more »»
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