Research and commentary from a former senior executive in the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
More on Buying Health Insurance Across State Lines - John R. Graham - Critical Condition on National Review Online
More on Buying Health Insurance Across State Lines - John R. Graham - Critical Condition on National Review Online. You don't need Congress to mandate it.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
What Are Republicans Talking about When Republicans Talk about 'Buying Health Insurance Across State Lines'? - John R. Graham - Critical Condition on National Review Online
What Are Republicans Talking about When Republicans Talk about 'Buying Health Insurance Across State Lines'? - John R. Graham - Critical Condition on National Review Online. Sometimes, I'm not sure that even they know.
Friday, February 19, 2010
Nicholas Kristof Hosts Straw Man of the United States to Talk Health Reform
Nic Kristof argues that Australia and Sweden have better health care than the U.S.. But he doesn't appreciate that, in some ways, they have less government control that the U.S. Nicholas Kristof Hosts Straw Man of the United States to Talk Health Reform
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Electronic Health Records and Government Health Care
A toxic mix, as the Ontario experience shows: My comment at State House Call.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Subjecting Health Insurers to Federal Antitrust?
Subjecting health insurers to federal antitrust laws would achieve nothing: My latest Health Policy Prescription.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
New York Times Debunks the Uncompensated-Care Myth
New York Times Debunks the Uncompensated-Care Myth - John R. Graham - Critical Condition on National Review Online
More on Anthem Blue Cross California Rate Hikes
A number of possible reasons. (Anthem's "greed" isn't one of them.)
Monday, February 8, 2010
What's Behind Anthem Blue Cross' California Rate Hikes?
Adverse selection, caused by new state regulations, I suggest.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
California's New HMO Regulations
It's a supreme irony that California has just imposed HMO regs that its Medi-Cal program could never achieve, and a state senator re-introduces a single-payer bill!
The Premier of Newfoundland's Heart Surgery
As everyone now knows, the premier of Newfoundland is coming stateside for heart surgery, which is fodder for the health-care debate by soundbites. What we don't yet know is who is paying for it.