John R. Graham
Thursday, July 10, 2008Healthy San Francisco Plan Finally Signs Up Some HospitalsBut For How Long Will They Really Treat Folks For Free? By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareSan Francisco's tax-hiking and opaque pay-or-play business tax to fund its public health bureaucracy claims to have finally overcome one of the major criticisms that I had made of it. Namely, that it did ... more »»
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Tuesday, July 8, 2008California's Health Insurance Rescissions: Hospitals Get Their Pound of FleshMaybe Anthem Blue Cross didn't break the law, but it sure stuck the providers By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareYesterday, I asked the quasi-rhetorical question: "Why did California's campaign against Anthem Blue Cross collapse?", addressing state regulators' failure to collect a $1 million fine for Anthem Blue ... more »»
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Monday, July 7, 2008Why Did California's Campaign Against Anthem Blue Cross Collapse?How about this: Maybe the health plan did not break the law? By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareI have written a series of blog entries about California's health care regulators attacking health plans for "rescission," which the regulators have equated with "post-claims underwriting." The ... more »»
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Thursday, July 3, 2008You've Done A Great Job - Don't Bother Coming Back TomorrowThe Lights Go Dim on the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareOK, let me get this straight: We've been critically following the passage of the autism mandate in Pennsylvania for almost a year now. It more »»
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Wednesday, July 2, 2008Unbalanced Medical Billing in California: The (Wrong?) Regulator AttacksDepartment of Managed Health Care Cannot Keep Up With Health Care Changes By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareIf the media want to mock an enterprise that cannot manage the pace of change, they describe its alleged similarities to buggy-whip manufacturers after the dawn of the automobile age. But what happens to the government agency that regulates the buggy-whip manufacturers? Obviously, the ... more »»
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Tuesday, July 1, 2008From Heart Transplants to Hairpieces: The Questionable Benefits of State Benefit MandatesNew Study Finds Higher Premiums, Lower Wages, Longer Hours, More Uninsured By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CarePRI released a new paper today, which examines one critical area where states interfere in residents' ability to buy health insurance of their choosing. According to From Heart ... more »»
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Monday, June 30, 2008Bankruptcy of Government-Monopoly Health Care is Fiscal & MoralCalifornia's most vulnerable citizens at the mercy of state-run health care By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareCalifornia politicians like Sen. Sheila Kuehl believe that they can run health care better than Californians themselves can. Here's a question for anyone tempted to believe this: Will the government-monopoly ... more »»
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Thursday, June 26, 2008California's Health Care Elites Rally for Government HandoutsSchwarzenegger's Fair Weather Allies Turn on Him in A Crisis By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareCalifornia's budget crisis has caused Gov. Schwarzenegger to propose putting the brakes on Medi-Cal's out-of-control, autopilot, growth. Of course, the governor is only doing it because California ... more »»
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008Organized Medicine's Unhealthy Focus on "Medical Loss Ratio"Why Does the California Medical Association Want Accountants to Run Health Care? By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareThe California Medical Association has released its annual ranking of the state's health plans. No, the ranking does not measure health plans by the degree to which their reimbursement policies hew to medically recognized ... more »»
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008Has the Autism Mandate Avalanche Hit A Roadblock?Pennsylvania Senate holds up ultra-expensive mandate By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareLast August, I wrote an op-ed in the Philadelphia Business Journal decrying the Commonwealth's rush to impose a mandate for autism treatment costing $36,000 per patient. (Note: this is a specific, ... more »»
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