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Messing up Health Insurance in California
By: John R. Graham
8.29.2007

Rogue Regulator Wrapped Up In Own Red Tape?


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Kids' Health Care A Socialist Plot? Yes! And Education Too!
By: John R. Graham
8.28.2007

Has Paul Krugman Never Heard of a "Charter School" or a "Voucher"?
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Small Business for Socialism?
By: John R. Graham
8.24.2007

"Tax Me Before I Fail To Provide Health Insurance, Again"
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Crisis of Convenience: You Can't Keep a Busy Bureaucrat Down
By: John R. Graham
8.23.2007

Ridiculous Responses to the Rise of Retail Clinics
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Out of Left Field: Do 36 % of Californians Favor State Monopoly Health Care?
By: John R. Graham
8.22.2007

Field Poll Results Defy Explanation: A SiCKO effect?
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Moaning in Massachusetts Means More Meddling
By: John R. Graham
8.20.2007

Health Reforming Politicos Have Sown the Wind, but Taxpayers Will Reap the Whirlwind
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Ranking Doctor Quality: New York Needs Competition, Not Cuomo-tition
By: John R. Graham
8.17.2007

Attorney-General Cuomo's Attack on Health Plans is Unprovoked & Frivolous


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Hospital Price Transparency: One Step Backward in Arizona?
By: John R. Graham
8.16.2007

A verdict shows where blame for crazy hospital pricing lies: the State


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Los Angeles: Martin Luther King, Jr.-Harbor Hospital Closure
By: John R. Graham
8.14.2007

You know government health care is bad when the government payer shuts down the government provider


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The New York Times on Health Care: As Wrong As Can Be
By: John R. Graham
8.13.2007

What’s the New York Times' beef against American health care? 


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Turf Protection Watch: California's Hospitals Can't Handle Competition
By: John R. Graham
8.10.2007

California Hospital Foundation's Attack on 40 Physician-Owned Inpatient Beds is Unfounded.


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WSJ Article Gives Unwarranted Boost to Universal Pre-K
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
8.9.2007

A front-page story in the Wall Street Journal (“As States Tackle Poverty, Preschool Gets High Marks,” August 9, 2007) gives a largely uncritical review of recent efforts of activists, academics, government officials, charitable foundations, and business to enact universal preschool programs at the state and federal levels.  The arguments made by preschool supporters and the research which they cite, however, are hugely flawed.  Sadly, the Journal article made little attempt to analyze rigorously the claims made by pre-K boosters.
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Big Bad Pharma: Still Trying to Sell What They Invent
By: John R. Graham
8.7.2007

It's hard to keep up with the LA Times on health policy.


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The Root Cause of Medical Miracles
By: John R. Graham
8.3.2007

I have taken a few swings at American hospitals, and their often harmful lobbying stances, but Ron Winslow’s Wall Street Journal article about Minnesota’s rural hospitals airlifting heart attack patients to urban hospitals where they can get more effective care is breathtakingly impressive.


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Response to Mark Thoma's Comments on PRI's "Jackpot Justice" Study
By: Lawrence J. McQuillan, Ph.D
8.2.2007

Mark Thoma, associate professor of economics at the University of Oregon in Eugene, commented on my study Jackpot Justice for "The Economist's View" blog.  Not only do his comments cast doubt on whether he actually read the study, but it is clear that Mr. Thoma does not fully understand my methodology or the limitations/flaws in the 2002 Council of Economic Advisers report.  Please read his commentary and my point-by-point response here

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