Robert F. Graboyes, MSHA, PhD Curriculum Vitae (5/25/20)
Senior Research Fellow Mercatus Center at George Mason University 3434 Washington Boulevard, 4th floor Arlington, VA 22201
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EDUCATION
2000 Ph.D., Economics, Columbia University, New York, NY. 1998 M.S.H.A., Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA. 1984 M.Phil., Economics, Columbia University, New York, NY. 1981 M.A., Government, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA. 1976 B.A., English, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
NONACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2013-date Mercatus Center at George Mason University: Senior Research Fellow | health care scholar, focused on technological innovation 2011-2013 National Federation Independent Business: Senior Fellow for Health and Economics (2011-2013), Senior Healthcare Advisor (2007-2011) | advisor on federal and state health care policy 1996-2002 Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond: Manager and Economist (1996-2002), Associate Economist (1990-1996), Assistant Economist and Managing Editor (1989-1990) | regional economist, bank director of education, journal editor 1989 Virginia Department of Taxation: Economist | revenue forecaster 1983-1988 Chase Manhattan Bank: Economist/Second Vice President (1985-1988), Associate Economist (1983-1985) | bank’s economist for Sub-Saharan Africa; portfolio modeling 1981-1982 Columbia University, Department of Economics: Research Assistant for Dr. Don Patinkin | assisted in writing of Anticipations of the General Theory?
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2005-2017 University of Virginia, School of Nursing: Clinical Professor (2013-2017), Clinical Associate Professor (2005-2013) 2012-2013 The George Washington University, Department of Health Services Management and Leadership: Adjunct Professor 1998-2018 Virginia Commonwealth University, Department of Health Administration & School of Allied Health Professions: Affiliate Professor (2009-2018), Affiliate Associate Professor (2002-2009), Affiliate Assistant Professor (1998-2002) 2008-2013 George Mason University, Department of Health Administration and Policy: Adjunct Professor 2001-2007 University of Richmond, Department of Economics: Visiting Lecturer (2006-2007), Visiting Associate Professor (2005-2006), Visiting Assistant Professor (2002-2005), Part-time Assistant Professor (2001-2002); Language Across the Curriculum: Director/Department Chair 1983 Hunter College (City University of New York), Department of Economics: Adjunct Professor
VISITING APPOINTMENTS
2000, 2007 Kazakhstan School of Public Health (Almaty, Kazakhstan): Visiting Scholar 2007 American Institute for Economic Research (Great Barrington, MA): Visiting Fellow
HONORS AND AWARDS
2014 Reason Foundation, Bastiat Prize for Journalism 2012 Outstanding Faculty Award, The George Washington University, Department of Health Services Management and Leadership 2007 Dennis D. Pointer Award, Virginia Commonwealth University, Department of Health Administration. 2005 Outstanding Professor of Economics, University of Richmond. 2005 Outstanding Professor of International Business, University of Richmond. 1998 Phi Kappa Phi Honorary Society 1981, 1982 Student Fellow, American Institute for Economic Research
RESEARCH GRANTS: PREVIOUS SUPPORT
2002 Co-Investigator (P.I.). “Choosing health versus wealth: a laboratory survey.” $6,000. Funding Source: University of Richmond Research Fund.
MERCATUS WORK
21/08/?? podcast Discourse with Eric Topol 21/07/?? podcast Discourse with Olga Jonas 21/06/04 podcast Discourse with Devi Shetty Fortress and Frontier: A Second Conversation with 21/05/09 podcast Discourse Temple Grandin Fortress and Frontier: What the Data Say About COVID- 21/05/07 podcast Discourse 19 ... written Proposed Legislation Increases Openness in and Access 21/05/06 Maine State Legislature testimony to Healthcare in Maine 21/04/29 op-ed InsideSources Healthcare Prices: When Transparency Means Trouble radio 21/04/27 David Webb Show Healthcare Price Transparency interview 21/04/14 op-ed InsideSources On Telemedicine in Sub-Saharan Africa written Colorado General Telemedicine Is Evolving Rapidly; Legal Definitions and 21/04/12 testimony Assembly Reimbursement Methods Need to Evolve with It 21/04/12 podcast Discourse Fortress and Frontier: Different but Not Less 21/03/31 op-ed InsideSources Telehealth as Commodity public Use of Visual Thinking for Solving Problems, with 21/03/19 IHS conversation Temple Grandin radio Marketplace Radio 21/03/18 Big Tech in Health Care interview (NPR) Different, But Not Less: Temple Grandin and the 21/03/12 podcast Discourse Economics of Neurodiversity 21/03/10 op-ed InsideSources Towards Swifter Prior Authorization (with Darcy Bryan) 21/03/05 essay Discourse Staying in Business through Reinvention and Resilience 21/02/24 op-ed InsideSources Telehealth: Eyes on Arizona 21/02/10 op-ed InsideSources Gigs, Jobs, and Dolly Parton radio 21/02/02 David Webb Show Biden’s Healthcare Agenda interview written 21/02/01 Arizona Legislature Proposed Telehealth Legislation Is a Positive Step testimony radio Biden’s Healthcare Agenda and Opening Up the ACA 21/01/27 Lars Larson Show interview Marketplace Streamlining the Flow of Health Care Data (with Darcy 21/01/26 op-ed InsideSources Bryan and Lyle Berkowitz) Letter to the Editor - Medicare Expansion (with Darcy 21/01/17 citation Dallas Morning News Bryan) Temple Grandin, Autism, Animals, Expertise, and 21/01/12 op-ed InsideSources Entrepreneurship As Texas Legislators Consider Expanding Medicaid, They 21/01/10 op-ed Dallas Morning News Should Also Consider the Supply of Care (with Darcy Bryan) Michigan Facing Slow, But Improving COVID-19 Vaccine 21/01/08 citation Center Square Rollout Washington Free 21/01/08 citation Biden Chief of Staff Seems to Back $23 Minimum Wage Beacon Healthcare Openness and Access Project 2020: Full 20/12/22b paper Mercatus Release (with Jared Rhoads and Darcy Bryan) 20/12/22a op-ed InsideSources Chronos and Kairos: 2020 in Hindsight 20/12/20 op-ed Pittsburgh Post-Gazette No, Canada Federal Agency Reports NIH Doesn’t Consider Drug 20/12/16 citation Legal Reader Affordability 20/12/07 op-ed InsideSources Toward a Different Healthcare Debate Trump’s Latest Executive Order Aims to Reduce Health 20/12/03 citation Business and Politics Care Costs, but Some Fear It Will Turn Providers into Cartels The Rattler’s Tail and Snakebit Pollsters (with Chuck 20/11/20 essay Discourse Blahous) 20/11/18 op-ed The Hill Defusing the Judicial Confirmation Process radio Robert Graboyes on Morning Briefing - ACA SCOTUS 20/11/12 SiriusXM POTUS interview Case radio Lowman Henry, 20/11/11 SCOTUS ACA Case interview American Talk Radio 20/11/11 op-ed InsideSources Why Are We So POLARIZED?!? radio Robert Graboyes on American Radio Journal - ACA 20/11/11 American Radio Journal interview SCOTUS Case 20/11/11 op-ed InsideSources For Healthcare, Less Regulation and Smarter Regulation Technical Expert Panel on Electronic Health Record public 20/10/30 CMS Data (with Darcy Bryan and Lyle Berkowitz) Quality comment Best Practices for Increased Scientific Acceptability Debate: Healthcare Access and Affordability in the Age Adam Smith Society. 20/10/27 video panel of COVID-19: More Regulation or Less? (with David UVA Kendall) David Brooks, New How Democrats Won the War of Ideas (with Chuck 20/10/22 citation York Times Blahous) 20/10/19 essay Discourse Leftward Ho! (with Chuck Blahous) Health Care Costs Are an Urgent Problem, But Price 20/10/15 citation Daily Caller Transparency Is Not the Solution, Two Health Industry Professionals Say 20/10/14 op-ed InsideSources On Face Masks, God, Baseball, Kidneys and Cancer panel Healthcare under Siege: How Industry and Government 20/10/10 American Conservative discussion Collusion Created a Crisis for Consumers public CMS’s Proposed Rule Is an Admirable First Step Toward 20/10/05 CMS comment Removing Healthcare Supply Barriers 20/09/29 lecture Osher Institute Conundrums: Economics Meets Ethics in Healthcare 20/09/24 essay The Bridge Curing High Healthcare Prices (with Jessie McBirney 20/09/23 op-ed InsideSources On Personal Proximity and Physical Distance 20/09/21 essay The Bridge The Longed-For Values of Gentler Times 20/09/18 paper SSRN Revitalizing Medicare’s Pricing System with Auctions An Open Letter on Political Discourse to My Facebook 20/09/09 op-ed InsideSources Friends 20/09/04 citation Heartland Institute Hospitals, Insurers Must Post Charges, Court Decides Healthcare Transparency Mandates — First, Do No 20/08/26 op-ed InsideSources Harm Price Transparency in Healthcare: Apply with Caution 20/08/19 paper Mercatus (with Jessie McBirney) 20/08/12 op-ed InsideSources White House Ramps Up Telehealth and Rural Care 20/07/31 webinar Concordia University The Future of Technology-Enabled Healthcare, Post- Wisconsin COVID 20/07/22 op-ed InsideSources Communications, From Kovacs to COVID Improving Healthcare Access in the States after COVID- 20/07/15 paper Mercatus Center 19 (with Jared Rhoads and Darcy Bryan) 20/07/08 op-ed InsideSources Armchair Epidemiology in the Age of Adamancy After Healthcare, Americans Still Have Plenty to Spend 20/07/01 essay Mercatus: The Bridge (with Kofi Ampaabeng and Cecilia Bellet) book Concordia University 20/07/01 Technological Innovation and Supply-side Drivers chapter Wisconsin book Concordia University 20/07/01 Pitfalls of Price Transparency in Healthcare chapter Wisconsin Can employer disruption bring competition to health 20/06/25 webinar AEI care? 20/06/24 op-ed InsideSources $15 Minimum Wage: Good for Target, Bad for Others Why economic growth is the mother of life, health and 20/06/12 op-ed Dallas Morning News contentment 20/06/10 op-ed InsideSources COVID-19 As a ‘Trolley Problem’ Medical Drones in the United States and a Survey of 20/06/05 webinar ATR, Friends of tech Technical and Policy Challenges How the Lockdown Looks Depends on How You Get 20/05/27 op-ed InsideSources Your Bread To Fight COVID-19 and Rebuild the Economy, Welcome 20/05/13 op-ed InsideSources Immigrants 20/05/04 webinar Rio Grande Foundation Tipping Point New Mexico COVID-19 Illuminates the Blessings and Vulnerabilities 20/04/23 essay Mercatus: The Bridge of the Internet (with Jim Ronyak) 20/04/22 op-ed InsideSources Blue Skies, Chirping Birds and COVID-19 Americans for 20/04/22 webinar Innovation in Healthcare Prosperity - VA 20/04/16 webinar Show-Me Institute Preparing for the Next Pandemic 20/04/16 webinar Show-Me Institute Preparing for the Next Pandemic - 20/04/10 webinar Benjamin Rush Institute 20/04/09 webinar Benjamin Rush Institute Americans for 20/04/09 webinar Prosperity - VA 20/04/08 op-ed InsideSources COVID-19: 25 Days Later - A Perfect (Tweet)storm: Conjectures on a Post-COVID 20/04/07 essay Mercatus: The Bridge - World Quick Reads: Virginians and the Mathematics of 20/04/06 essay Mercatus: The Bridge - Contagion Graboyes COVID, Cancer, and the Need for Rapid Regulatory 20/04/01 Interviews Mercatus: The Bridge - Relief Pat Basu James Madison video 20/04/01 Institute (with Sal Policy Gone Viral - interview Nuzzo) Graboyes 20/03/31 interviews Mercatus: The Bridge Telemedicine Before, During, and After COVID-19 - Ian Tong COVID-19 and State Healthcare Policies (with Darcy 20/03/25 op-ed InsideSources - Bryan) 20/03/24 website Mercatus Center HOAP: prelease website - Healthcare Openness and Access Project 2020: 20/03/24 paper Mercatus Center - Prerelease paper Healthcare Openness and Access Project 2020: 20/03/24 Mercatus Center - summary Prerelease (Summary) Quick Reads: COVID-19 and the Transformation of 20/03/23 essay Mercatus: The Bridge - American Healthcare S&P Global Market Need for safer drug delivery during pandemic may spur 20/03/20 interview Intelligence (Morgan - use of drones Frey) On the Tenth Anniversary of Obamacare, the Question 20/03/20 essay Mercatus: The Bridge Is Still More Important Than the Answer (withRobin - Currie) audio Coronavirus Impact on the Health Care System and the 20/03/19 American Radio Journal - interview Nation's Economy 20/03/11 op-ed InsideSources Coronavirus Makes the Case for Innovation - Washington Free Sanders Claims Medicare for All Would Fix Coronavirus. 20/03/11 quotation - Beacon It Might Make Things Worse University of Richmond: The Robot Will See You Now: Healthcare in an Age of Richmond, 20/03/09 lecture Osher Institute Artificial Intelligence VA 20/02/26 op-ed InsideSources Public Health and the Legitimate Role of Government - radio American Prosperity 20/02/22 Medicare for All interview Radio Mercatus Scholars' Most Influential Books: Robert 20/02/21 essay Mercatus Center - Graboyes Medical Drones in the United States and a Survey of 20/02/20 paper Mercatus Center - Technical and Policy Challenges (with Brent Skorup) For Patients and Therapists — Please Don’t Stop the 20/02/12 op-ed InsideSources - Music (with Jared Rhoads) Liberty and Responsibility in Public Health Policy: Winston- 20/02/06 conference Liberty Fund Balancing Individual and Social Interests Salem, NC Fiscal Watchdog Finds Bernie’s Healthcare Plan Could 20/01/29 citation InsideSources - Blow $20 Trillion Hole in Federal Budget radio 20/01/23 NPR 1A Rural Healthcare - interview 20/01/22 op-ed InsideSources Getting Medical Drones Into American Skies - Overcoming Technological and Policy Challenges to 20/01/14 paper Mercatus Center Medical Uses of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (with Darcy - Bryan and John Coglianese) 20/01/08 op-ed InsideSources How the 1920s Can Inform the 2020s in Health Care - 19/12/23 op-ed InsideSources State Versus Federal Licensure in Telemedicine - Brookings Institution: 19/12/16 conference Authors' Conference for Martin Gaynor - Hamilton Project For Rural and Underserved Communities, Stop Blocking 19/12/11 op-ed InsideSources - Care video Bob Graboyes of Mercatus on How Technology is 19/12/06 ALEC-TV - interview Changing the Face of Healthcare Around the World Scottsdale, 19/12/06 speech ALEC Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Health Care AZ Better Health for More People at Lower Cost, Year after Scottsdale, 19/12/05 speech ALEC Year AZ Scottsdale, 19/12/05 speech ALEC The Supply Side of Healthcare Reform AZ Ways & Means, Rural written and Underserved Delivery System Innovation Is the Key to Better Rural 19/11/29 - testimony Communities Task and Underserved Communities Healthcare Force 19/11/26 op-ed InsideSources The Problem With Transparent Healthcare Prices - Warren’s Medicare for All Plan Counts Chickens, Kills 19/11/13 op-ed InsideSources - Geese California Increases Telemedicine Payments to Reduce 19/11/11 quote Heartland Institute - Medicaid Costs 19/10/29 essay Mercatus: The Bridge Do Better Times Breed Dissatisfaction? - 19/10/23 op-ed InsideSources Less Paperwork, Better Health Care - President Trump Addresses Demand and Supply Issues 19/10/17 quote Norfolk Daily News - with New Health Care statement of intentions 19/10/09 op-ed InsideSources Lots to Like in the Executive Order on Medicare - 19/10/04 podcast ALEC Saving Lives with Health Care Tech - Delivered (DHL 19/09/26 quote How medical drones help save lives in Tanzania - magazine) 19/09/25b op-ed InsideSources International Health Care Rankings: Bad to Worse - American Consumer Drug Pricing Policy Prescriptions for 2020 The Good, Washington, 19/09/25a panel Institute The Bad, and the Ugly DC 19/09/23 podcast ALEC The Dangers of Drug Importation - Mississippi Center for 19/09/19b interview Expanding Access to Healthcare and Lowering Costs Jackson, MS Public Policy National Economists The Calendar Test: Toward Nonpartisan Healthcare Washington, 19/09/19a speech Club Reform DC Mississippi Center for 19/09/12c speech Liberty Luncheon: Fortress and Frontier in Healthcare Jackson, MS Public Policy Mississippi Center for 19/09/12b podcast Unlicensed: The Frontier Mentality in Healthcare Jackson, MS Public Policy radio The Gallo Show: 19/09/12a Healthcare Chat (2nd hour, starting around 16 minutes) Jackson, MS interview SuperTalk Mississippi 19/09/11b op-ed InsideSources Beware the Public Option in Health Insurance - Mississippi Americans 19/09/11a speech Fortress and Frontier in Healthcare Jackson, MS for Prosperity 19/08/28 op-ed InsideSources On the Virtues of Telemedicine - 19/08/19 essay Mercatus: The Bridge Bad Ways to Lower Drug Prices - 19/08/14 op-ed InsideSources Bad Bipartisan Ideas on Drug Prices - The Accad & Koka 19/08/09 podcast From Fortress to Frontier in American Health Care - Report 19/07/24 op-ed InsideSources Medical Bills — Big, Small and Compared to What? - 19/07/18 essay Mercatus: The Bridge When Saving a Child's Life for Free is Bad News - Concordia University keynote One Hand Clapping: Trump’s Healthcare Proposals, 19/07/16 Wisconsin Healthcare Mequon, WI address Haven and More Economic Summit 19/07/10 op-ed InsideSources Are High-Risk Pools Market-Friendly? - 1332 Waivers and Healthcare Supply: Lowering Costs, 19/07/02 comment Mercatus - Improving Quality, and Expanding Access 19/06/28 essay Mercatus: The Bridge A Health Economist's Tour of Scotland - 19/06/26 op-ed InsideSources What String Quartets Tell Us About Health Care Costs - Faster Approval for U.S. Medical Drones? (with Darcy 19/06/12 op-ed InsideSources - Bryan) 19/05/22 op-ed InsideSources Timeless Lessons from Old Money - Mercatus: Macro 19/05/13 podcast Future of Healthcare and Medicare for All - Musings 19/05/12 podcast Mercatus: The Bridge Robert Graboyes on Monetary History of Small Coins - 19/05/08 op-ed InsideSources Obesity and the Limits of Design - A Drone Just Flew a Kidney to a Transplant Patient for 19/05/03 quote NBC News - the First Time Ever. It Won't Be the Last Marketplace Radio 19/04/30 quote Medicare-for-All - An Explainer - (NPR) Enabling Telemedicine — Legal and Regulatory 19/04/24 op-ed InsideSources Challenges Top-Down Government Efforts to Corral Drug Prices 19/04/23 op-ed The Hill - Will Fail 19/04/16 essay Mercatus: The Bridge Notre-Dame and the Myth of Timelessness - radio 19/04/11 WJR radio, Detroit Bernie Sanders’ Medicare for All - interview 19/04/10b op-ed InsideSources Goodbye Electoral College, Hello Karma - 19/04/10a interview WJR radio, Detroit Bernie Sanders’ Medicare for All - panel Can the Two Parties Work Together on Health Care at 19/04/08 The Rising (Hill.TV) - discussion All? 19/03/27 op-ed InsideSources The Ineffable Ethics of DNA - 19/03/13 op-ed InsideSources O, Canada: The "Crisis" of American Health Care - Despite trillions in estimated costs, House Democrats file 19/02/28b Interview Heartland Institute - 'Medicare for All' measure Better Health for More People at Lower Cost, Year after written U.S. Senate HELP 19/02/28a Year: Greatest Opportunities to Improve America’s - testimony Committee Unbroken, but Underperforming Healthcare System 19/02/27 op-ed InsideSources TeVido BioDevices and Treating Vitiligo - “They Shall Not Grow Old”: Restoring the Battlefield, 19/02/13 op-ed InsideSources - Not the Film 19/01/31 podcast Heartland Institute Should Health Care Be Regulated Like the Internet? - 19/01/24b Interview Heartland Institute Obamacare Ruling Puts Focus on Medicare for All - New Poll Shows Parties are Divided on Whether Health 19/01/24a Interview Heartland Institute - Care System Is ‘In Crisis’ Comparing Health Care Systems: Getting Past the Pop- 19/01/23 op-ed InsideSources - Psych 19/01/22 podcast Mercatus: The Bridge The Promise of Medical Drones - Drones Delivering Medical Supplies and More Can Help 19/01/18 op-ed STAT - Save American Lives (with Darcy Bryan) New Year, Old Thoughts: Great Minds on Economics, 19/01/10 essay Mercatus: The Bridge - Healthcare, Politics, Innovation, and Life 19/01/09 op-ed InsideSources No Easy Answers to Drug Prices - 19/01/01 ObamaCare Mandate Says Goodbye in 2019, as Health 18/12/30 citation Fox News - Law Faces New Threat 18/12/26 op-ed InsideSources Economic History and New Evolution - 18/12/18 essay Mercatus: The Bridge The Din of Healthcare: Melancholia, Multiplication, and - Miracles 18/12/17 essay CapX Could Machine Learning Save People from Drowning? - 18/12/12 essay Mercatus: The Bridge The Din of Healthcare: Meditations and Medications - Public health experts ask: Should ‘stupid kids’ be allowed 18/12/11 citation Vapes - to kill vaping 18/12/11 op-ed InsideSources Jalapeños, Drug Prices, and Economic Logic - Vaping: Should Stupid Kids Deprive You of Lifesaving 18/11/30 op-ed McClatchy Trbune - Technology? Americans for Arlington, 18/11/29 speech Fortress and Frontier and More Prosperity VA 18/11/27 op-ed InsideSources Toward Humility in Health Care - 18/11/08 Interview Bottom Line How Much Single-Payer Would Really Cost - 18/11/07 op-ed InsideSources A Salute for Lieutenant Graboyes - As Mid-Term Elections Approach, Here’s What You Need 18/11/01 podcast Bottom Line - to Know About Single-Payer Health Care 18/10/24 op-ed InsideSources Clover Health: Machine Learning to Improve Care - 18/10/15 essay Mercatus: The Bridge The Din of Healthcare: Marvels and Makers - 18/10/10c panel State Policy Network Innovations in Healthcare for the 21st Century Salt Lake City What Policymakers Need to Know About Medicare for 18/10/10b panel Mercatus Salt Lake City All 18/10/10a panel State Policy Network Innovations in Healthcare for the 21st Century Salt Lake City 18/10/09 op-ed InsideSources Telepsychiatry — Serving the Underserved - Institute for Humane Studies & Center for the 18/10/09 panel Occupational Licensing Restricting Health Care Choice Salt Lake City Study of Occupational Regulation 18/10/01 essay Mercatus: The Bridge The Din of Healthcare: Myths and Maybes - 18/10/?? interview Bottom Line How Much Would Medicare for All Cost? - Futurists and Health Care: How Technology & Innovation 18/09/30 panel NABE Boston, MA May Change the US Health Sector Safety Versus Speed — Drug and Device Approval 18/09/26 op-ed InsideSources - Options The Din of Healthcare: Myths, Marvels, and 18/09/20 essay Mercatus: The Bridge - Meditations NABE, Healthcare What's the Outlook for Medicare? Former Trustees 18/09/13 webinar - Economics Roundtable Weigh In 18/09/12b op-ed InsideSources Medicare for All/Single-Payer FAQs - As free innovation encounters health care regulation, 18/09/12a op-ed STAT - think ‘soft laws’ 18/09/02 op-ed Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Elites design health care systems that serve elites - 18/08/30 op-ed Mercatus: The Bridge Medicare for All: Taxes and Tradeoffs - Study: 'Medicare for all' proposal would cost $32.6 18/08/28 interview Watchdog - trillion over 10 years, lead to massive tax hikes 18/08/23 op-ed Mercatus: The Bridge Medicare for All: Explaining the Math - Smart Meters for Diabetes Monitoring (with Sara 18/08/22 op-ed InsideSources - Rogers) Biking with Bernie: The Illusory Savings of 'Medicare for 18/08/10 op-ed Washington Examiner - All' radio American Radio Journal 18/08/09 Cost of Single Payer Health Care - interview (Lowman Henry) 18/08/08b interview Modern Healthcare Trump Proves to be the Disrupter in Chief - 18/08/08a op-ed InsideSources The Unintended Elitism of Health Care Policy - 18/08/06 op-ed Real Clear Policy No, Medicare for All Won't Lower Health-Care Costs - Clarion-Ledger The Promise of Telemedicine in Mississippi (with 18/08/04 op-ed - (Mississippi) Jennifer Huddleston Skees) radio 18/07/31b KDMT (Colorado) Medicare for All - interview 'Medicare-for-All' Program Could Cost $32 Trillion but 18/07/31a citation ABC News - May Also Save $2 Trillion 18/07/27 op-ed Tribune papers Veterans Affairs to the Forefront - 18/07/25 op-ed InsideSources Getting the Vapors over Vaping - 18/07/23 citation Forbes California's Costly, Inaccessible Healthcare System - 18/07/17 op-ed Wyoming Tribune Eagle Wyoming Gives States "HOAP" on Health Care - 18/07/11b citation KFOR Radio NE Improves In Medical Ranking - 18/07/11a op-ed InsideSources Maybe We're Not in a Health Care Crisis? - 18/06/28 op-ed InsideSources Amsterdam — the Economic City - 18/06/18 Q&A Mercatus: The Bridge A New HOAP - Politico Morning e- 18/06/14d citation Telehealth Providers Trying to Stand Out - Health WDBO Radio (Orlando) 18/06/14c citation HOAP - & other outlets Becker’s Hospital 18/06/14b citation Here is How All 50 states, DC Rank in Patient Access - Review 18/06/14a op-ed InsideSources Health Care Summer Reading List - Investor's Business Trump's Prescription for Drug Costs: It's a Good Start, 18/06/01 op-ed Daily But No Panacea 18/05/24 citation Reason A 'Right to Try' Bill Is Finally Heading to Trump's Desk - 18/05/23 op-ed InsideSources Paying Comrade Doctor - 18/05/23 op-ed InsideSources Paying Comrade Doctor - 18/05/20 essay AIER Thank you, AIER - The Great Divide: Challenges Facing Rural Health Care 18/05/11 citation Carolina Journal - Delivery in N.C. Kaiser Health News GOP’s Final Push to Kill Health Law is on Two Fronts; 18/05/09b citation - Morning Briefing Stop Keeping Patients in the Dark on Prices 18/05/09a op-ed InsideSources Life, Death and Intimacy in Medicine - USA Today / Gannett 18/05/07 op-ed No Mandate on Health Care Costs - Newspapers Coalition for Patient Washington, 18/05/02 speech Calendar Test Rights DC 18/04/25 op-ed InsideSources Genomics and the Shadowland of Ethics - 18/04/11 op-ed InsideSources The Role of Imagination in Health Care and Gas Pumps - Virginia Institute for “How can we make health care as innovative in the next Richmond, 18/04/10 speech Public Policy 25 years as information technology was in the past 25?” VA 18/03/28 op-ed InsideSources Ubers of Health Care - Support Builds, But ‘Right To Try’ Legislation Doesn’t 18/03/14 panel NPR - Clear House Monticello, Borax and McDonald’s — Three Tales of 18/03/13 op-ed InsideSources - Inflation 18/03/10 citation Heartland Institute Poll: Voters Want Congress to Act on Prescription Drug - Prices Columbus, 18/03/08 speech Benjamin Rush Institute Falcon Heavy Health Care OH 18/02/28 op-ed InsideSources Government Says, Eat Your Cheese! - Rep. Andy Biggs 18/02/16b citation Future of Electronic Health Records - newsletter radio Mick Mulvaney Wants to Decide What the Poor Eat for 18/02/16a Lars Larson Show - interview Lunch op-ed (with Commentary: Mick Mulvaney Wants to Decide What 18/02/15c Matt Fortune - the Poor Eat for Lunch Mitchell) paper (with From Electronic Health Records to Digital Health 18/02/15b Darcy N Mercatus Center - Biographies Bryan) paper summary From Electronic Health Records to Digital Health 18/02/15a Mercatus Center - (with Darcy Biographies N Bryan) State of the Union and Health — Backward to 18/02/14 op-ed InsideSources - Insurance, Forward to Care Seven Suggestions for the Amazon-Berkshire-JP Morgan 18/02/13 op-ed National Review - Health Project radio 18/02/09 Schilling Show, WINA The Amazon/Berkshire/JPMorgan Trio - interview Virginia General Assembly’s Consideration of Medicaid Richmond, 18/02/08b interview WCVE TV/radio Expansion VA Thomas Jefferson Richmond, 18/02/08a panel Medicaid Expansion Institute VA panel 18/02/07b NABE The Future of the Affordable Care Act - (moderator) radio The John Batchelor Bezos, Buffet, and Dimon Ask Alexa to Solve Health-care 18/02/07a - interview Show Costs in America radio Berkshire Hathaway, Amazon and JP Morgan Forming 18/02/05 WGN "Morning Bell" - interview Independent Healthcare Company Phoenix Business Experts ponder Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan efforts to 18/02/02b citation - Journal take on health care challenges Advocates Cheer Trump Boost of 'Right to Try' 18/02/02a citation Lifezette - Experimental Medical Treatments radio The John Batchelor Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Health Care 18/01/30 - interview Show Company 18/01/26b essay Mercatus: The Bridge Healthcare: Imagine the Possibilities - 18/01/26a statement Mercatus Center Comment on State of the Union Address - 18/01/24 op-ed Inside Sources Death and Life of American Health Care - Innovation, Isolation, Litigation and the Search for 18/01/10 op-ed InsideSources - Marcus Welby 17/12/27 op-ed InsideSources The Individual Mandate: Gone, but Not Forgotten - Fact check: The individual mandate isn't a 'primary 17/12/22 citation Fierce Healthcare - source of funding' for the ACA 17/12/13 op-ed InsideSources The Affordable Care Act: Babushka Nadvoye Skazala - MIMS General News Digital technology paving the way to a more enhanced 17/12/06 citation - (blog) and sustainable healthcare industry Technology Driving Health Care Spending — or Vice 17/11/22 op-ed InsideSources - Versa Ending Obamacare Mandate Would Save Cash — at 17/11/16 citation Lifezette - Least on Paper The GOP plan to kill Obamacare’s least popular 17/11/15 citation Washington Post - provision could backfire on some in the middle class The Increasing Prices of Healthcare Services in the 17/11/17 citation Financial Buzz - United States Ending Medical Tax Break Could Be a ‘Gut Punch’ to the 17/11/08b citation NYT - Middle Class Individual Mandate Squeamishness Bodes Ill for Single- 17/11/08a op-ed Inside Sources - Payer 17/11/07 citation CNN 4 reasons why US health care is so expensive - panel Western Growers Las Vegas, 17/10/30 Health care Reform discussion Association NV NABE Health Economics 17/10/26b webinar NABE webinar - Roundtable WVLK Radio “Kruser 17/10/26a interview Health care reform - and Krew” (Kentucky) Inside Sources / 17/10/25 op-ed Memories from My Pre-digital Life - Newsday 17/10/24 statement Mercatus website Hatch-Brady statement - 17/10/18b op-ed Philadelphia Inquirer New Jersey Extends Welcome to Telemedicine - 17/10/18a statement Mercatus website Alexander-Murray bill - Healthcare 17/10/13 op-ed Innovation, not Insurance, Is Health Care's Key - Technologies Executive Order Is No Substitute for Obamacare Repeal, 17/10/12 interview Lifezette - Experts Say radio Lowman Henry, 17/10/11c President Trump's Executive Order - interview American Talk Radio 17/10/11b op-ed The Hill Richard Thaler’s Nobel: A Celebration of Heresy - 17/10/11a op-ed InsideSources Cutting Health Care Costs — the Calendar Test - radio The John Batchelor 17/10/10 Crossing states lines for a haircut - interview Show Interstate Competition Isn't the Magic Health-Care 17/09/30 op-ed The Hill - Elixir 17/09/27 op-ed InsideSources Hurricane Doofonomics - Bernie Sanders Promises a Government-Designed 17/09/20 op-ed Real Clear Markets - Ferrari, Payments Included radio The John Batchelor 17/09/19 Medicare-for-All Is Genuinely Democratic Policy 2018 - interview Show ‘Medicare for All’ Push Highlights Democrat Embrace of 17/09/14 interview Lifezette - Fringe Positions High Quality and Low Price Converge at Narayana and 17/09/13b op-ed Inside Sources - Health City Cayman Islands Washington Free Sanders’s ‘Medicare for All’ Plan Draws Criticism From 17/09/13a citation - Beacon Health Care Advocates, Experts, Lawmakers Will America Catch Up With East Africa in Adopting 17/08/24 op-ed Real Clear Health - Medical Drones? Amicus Curiae Brief on Georgia CON Laws (with Chris 17/08/23 Amicus Brief Georgia Supreme Court - Koopman, Matt Mitchell, and James Bailey) 17/08/23 op-ed Inside Sources Medicare for All—A Non-Solution to a Non-Problem - Fort Worth Star- 17/08/22 op-ed The Texas Telemedicine Breakthrough - Telegram 17/08/17 op-ed Tribune papers Eclipse 2017: The Longest, Thinnest Party Ever - 17/08/09 op-ed Inside Sources Single-Payer — Dream, Nightmare or Status Quo? - radio The John Batchelor 17/08/08 Obamacare fails Nevada - interview Show Senate GOP’s Dual-Market Idea — Postmortem 17/07/26 op-ed Inside Sources - Premortem 17/07/12 op-ed Inside Sources Death Panels Are Back - Budget Forecasters Renew Extraordinary Faith in 17/07/20 interview Lifezette - Insurance Mandate 17/07/18 speech ALEC Fortress and Frontier - Is there any common ground for GOP, Dems on health 17/07/18 interview CBS News - care? GOP Plan Finally Tackles Cost Savings, Adopts Much of 17/07/14 interview Lifezette - Cruz Proposal Anatomy and Atrophy of Medical Paternalism (with Eric 17/07/06 paper Mercatus Center - Topol) paper Anatomy and Atrophy of Medical Paternalism (with Eric 17/07/06 Mercatus Center - summary Topol) 17/07/06 essay Mercatus Center Medical Paternalism in Many Guises - 17/07/06 interview CBS News Why is Health Care So Expensive in the First Place? - radio 17/07/05 WGN (Chicago) Proposed Healthcare Bill - interview 17/06/29 citation CBS News What Happens If the Health Care Bill Doesn't Pass? - MarketWatch, Caroline 17/06/28 citation What’s the Matter with Health Care? - Baum Splitting the Guild: A Modest Proposal for American 17/06/28 op-ed Inside Sources - Academe 17/06/26 op-ed Real Clear Health 10 Stray Thoughts on the Senate GOP’s Health Care Bill - radio 17/06/23 KSRO (Santa Rosa, CA) Senate health care bill & California single-payer bill - interview WUSA-TV (Washington, 17/06/22b TV interview Senate health care bill - DC) University of An iPad Saved Mom, An iPhone May Save Me: Health Richmond, 17/06/21 lecture Richmond/Osher Care in the Age of Silicon VA Institute Anatomy and Atrophy of Medical Paternalism (with Eric 17/06/15 paper Mercatus Center - Topol) 17/06/15 essay Mercatus Center Medical Paternalism and the Mercatus - 17/06/14 op-ed Inside Sources Preventive Medicine and the Curse of Common Sense - Georgetown Washington, 17/06/08 panel University/McDonough GapSummit 2017 DC School of Business Benjamin Rush 17/06/06 podcast Tech and Health Regulations (with Jared Rhoads) - Institute 17/06/15 op-ed (***) Inside Sources Preventive Medicine and the Curse of Common Sense - Georgetown Washington, 17/06/08 panel GapSummit 2017 University/McDonough DC School of Business 17/06/01 citation American Spectator Should Drug Counterfeiters Continue to Get Off Easy? - 17/05/23 op-ed RealClearHealth Costs and the Pre-Existing Conditions Pledge - 17/05/23 op-ed Inside Sources In Health Care, Four Annoying Chestnuts - long Interview: A Glimpse into the Future of Health Care 17/05/15 The Insider - interview with Robert Graboyes National Economists Washington, 17/05/11 lecture After 3/24: Health Care Reform Going Forward Club DC 17/05/09 op-ed Inside Sources ACA and AHCA: Aiken’s Formula for Churchill’s Pudding - radio WWL radio, New 17/05/08 Are You Concerned or Comfortable with Trump-Care? - interview Orleans, Bob Mitchell Trumpcare 1.2 - a Political Cure for Obamcare is Toxic 17/05/07 citation Aurora Sentinel - Medicine for America (Editorial) radio 17/05/04 The Lars Larson Show The GOP Healthcare Bill - interview What is the Upton Amendment? This Last-Minute Add 17/05/04 citation Mic - May Have Saved Trumpcare in the House 17/05/04 citation Real Clear Politics Pelosi cites Graboyes in House AHCA debate - Republicans Have to Pass Their Health Care Bill to Find 17/05/04 citation Reason ("Hit and Run") - Out What's In It Overnight Healthcare: House to Vote Thursday on 17/05/04 citation The Hill - ObamaCare Repeal radio 17/05/04 WBAL (Baltimore) The GOP Healthcare Bill - interview radio WVLK Radio “Kruser 17/05/03 The GOP Health Plan and Pre-Existing Conditions - interview and Krew” (Kentucky) Momentum for GOP Health Care Bill Boosted by $8 17/05/03 citation Morning Consult - Billion Deal 17/05/03 citation Wall Street Journal Jumping Into High-Risk Insurance Pools - House GOP Strategy to Save Health-Care Bill Hinges on 17/05/03 citation Washington Post - More Money for Preexisting Conditions The John Batchelor 17/05/03 citation The Pre-Existing Failures of the ACA - Show National Orthopedic Washington, 17/04/28 panel Cost and Price in Healthcare Leadership Council DC 17/04/26 op-ed Inside Sources In Health Care, Is Buyer’s Remorse Killing Us? - US News and World Opening the Door for Medical Innovation (with Jordan 17/04/24 op-ed - Report Reimschisel) Ag Innovator (Farm Equipment 17/04/18 op-ed 3/24: Health Care Reform in the Aftermath - Manufacturers Association) Investor's Business How Is an Emergency Room Like a Monkey Wrench? 17/04/14 op-ed - Daily (with David Goldhill) 17/04/12 op-ed Inside Sources After the AHCA: The Gift of Introspection - Health News 17/04/11 op-ed Real Health Care Reforms Pass the "Calendar Test" - (Heartland Institute) Experts Warn No Good Options as Scott Moves to Shut 17/04/07 citation Vermont Wachdog - Down Vermont Health Connect Insurance Costs Just the Tip of the Iceberg. Time to 17/04/05 op-ed The Hill - Reform the FDA (with Jordan Reimschisel) radio The John Batchelor 17/04/04 70 year-long Healthcare Moral Hazard - interview Show Three Steps Past Galen—The Promise of a Young 17/03/29 op-ed Inside Sources - Century The Neil Carusso Show 17/03/27 interview AHCA Failure - Podcast The David Webb Show 17/03/24 interview AHCA Vote - (Sirius XM) 17/03/23b interview WGN Radio AHCA Vote - 17/03/23a citation Lifezette The Scrambled Politics of the Health Care Debate - 17/03/22 op-ed Inside Sources Wearable Telemetry – Eating Health Care - 17/03/20 quote Bloomberg BNA Brady Hints at Tax Credit Changes in GOP Health Bill - Psychiatric Society of Richmond, 17/03/18 lecture Three Steps Past Galen: Medicine in the Digital Age Virginia VA Disabled Fear Medicaid Cuts will Diminish their 17/03/17 quote Philadelphia Inquirer - Independence Defending Voluntarism—Ron Hines and Carroll 17/03/15 op-ed Inside Sources - Landrum Supply and States: Missing Elements of Health Care 17/03/10 op-ed Real Clear Health - Reform 17/03/09 citation Veronique de Rugy It's the Health Care That Matters, Not the Insurance - 17/03/08 op-ed Inside Sources Care on the Margins—Stan Brock and RAM - 17/03/08 op-ed The Hill Congress Revisits the Pre-existing Condition Problem - 17/03/07 citation WUSA-9 GOP’s Obamacare Repeal Plan - moderator, National Association The ACA Under the Trump Administration: What’s 17/03/06 panel - for Business Economics Likely to Change? (w/ Avik Roy & Jared Bernstein) discussion National Association The Affordable Care Act 2017: Repeal or Retain? (with Washington, 17/02/27 webinar for Business Economics Sherry Glied & Doug Holtz-Eakin) DC The Invention of the Chicken and Innovation in Health 17/02/22 op-ed Inside Sources - Care US News and World 17/02/20 op-ed Tear Down Health Care Walls - Report California Could Shed Light on Groups that Determine 17/02/17b citation California Watchdog - How Much Your Drugs Cost Health Tax Exclusion Cap Could Raise GOP ‘Cadillac Tax’ 17/02/17a quote Bloomberg BNA - Ghosts 17/02/15 op-ed Inside Sources Will the U.S. Keep Its Edge in Health Care Innovation? - WWL radio, New radio 17/02/13 Orleans, Garland Health Care Innovation - interview Robinette Consumer Driven Healthcare is Possible, Just Ask 17/02/10 citation Forbes - Indiana panel Cronyism, telemedicine and on-demand medical 17/02/09 R St Institute U.S Capitol discussion innovations WWL radio, New radio 17/02/08 Orleans, Garland Options for Repealing and Replacing the ACA - interview Robinette 17/02/08 op-ed Inside Sources Doctors as Weavers — The Qualcomm Tricorder XPrize - 17/02/01 op-ed Inside Sources Credentials, Orthodoxy, Innovation - 17/01/31 lecture Benjamin Rush Fortress and Frontier in American Health Care New York, NY Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai 17/01/25 op-ed Inside Sources Data Visualization -- Simplifying the Complex - US News and World 17/01/23 op-ed Repeal, Replace, and Retrench - Report Extreme Affordability in Health Care — MiracleFeet 17/01/18 op-ed Inside Sources - Brace Far Frontier — Exotic Realms of Biohacking Medical 17/01/11 op-ed Inside Sources - Devices US News and World Be Careful What You Wreck: Don't be so quick to call 17/01/09 op-ed - Report for an end to the Electoral College 17/01/04 op-ed Inside Sources Innovations, Obstacles, and the 21st Century Cures Act - Passion, Persuasion and Serendipity in Innovation — St. 16/12/21 op-ed Inside Sources John Sepsis Agent Toward Digital Health Biographies (with Darcy Nikol 16/12/19 op-ed Real Clear Health Bryan) Employee Benefit Retirement and Health Policy Directions in 2017 and 16/12/02 panel Research Institute Beyond 3D Printing Transplantable Organs—Laura Bosworth 16/12/14 op-ed Inside Sources and TeVido Biodevices radio Lowman Henry, 16/12/08 Why States Should Focus on Health Care Delivery interview American Talk Radio radio 16/12/08 Illinois Watchdog Radio Healthcare Openness and Access Project (HOAP) interview radio 16/12/07 WTIC (CBS, Connecticut) Shaping Healthcare in Connecticut interview 16/12/06 speech Bastiat Society Fortress and Frontier in American Health Care 16/12/02 speech ALEC Healthcare Openness and Access Project (HOAP) Return of House Calls — Renee Dua, Heal and the 16/11/30 op-ed Inside Sources Uberization of Medicine 16/12/05 op-ed Washington Examiner http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/article/2608841 16/11/30 op-ed Inside Sources Direct Primary Care—Rushika Fernandopulle and Iora Time for states to retake control of health care policy 16/11/30 op-ed Tribune papers (with Darcy Nikol Bryan and Jared Rhoads) Healthcare Openness and Access Project: Mapping the 16/12/01 paper Mercatus Center Frontier for the Next Generation of American Healthcare (with Darcy Nikol Bryan and Jared Rhoads) Technology’s Gift of Time — How Digital Medicine Can 16/11/23 op-ed Inside Sources - Humanize Health Care Vision and Innovation — Aaron Dallek, Steven Lee and 16/11/16 op-ed Inside Sources - Opternative The Digital Era is here—and changing how we manage 16/11/14 essay Aging Today - our health Getting Personal — myStrength, Passion and 16/11/09 op-ed Inside Sources - Entrepreneurship Asynchronous Telemedicine: Jason Hwang and 16/11/02 op-ed Inside Sources - Scalability 16/10/26 op-ed Inside Sources Division of Labor: Ian Shakil’s Digital Pin Factory - 16/10/25 op-ed Real Clear Health Revisiting the ACA - 16/10/24 op-ed PBS News Hour, Do we need librarians now that we have the internet? Making Sen$e (Observing Librarians to Understand Physicians) A Hand for Innovation: Ivan Owen, Jon Schull, and e- 16/10/19 op-ed Inside Sources - NABLE 16/10/14 speech Docs for Patient Care Fortress and Frontier in American Healthcare Dallas, TX Transparent Health Care Pricing: Keith Smith and the 16/10/12 op-ed Inside Sources - Surgery Center of Oklahoma Telemedicine as Lifesaver: Ian Tong & Doctor on 16/10/05 op-ed Inside Sources - Demand Amazon Kindle: Nudge book Theory in Action, 16/10/04 Nudges in Health Care - chapter Sherzod Abdukadirov, editor R Street Institute: Tech 16/09/30 speech Toward Intelligent Electronic Health Records Arlington, VA Policy Working Group PBS News Hour, 16/09/30 op-ed Observing Librarians to Understand Physicians - Making Sen$e 16/09/28 op-ed Inside Sources Patient as Diagnostician: David Albert and AliveCor - 16/09/21 op-ed Inside Sources A Quiet Revolution in Health Care in a Digital Era - US News and World 16/09/19 op-ed I Don't Need This Job - Report keynote National Medical & Atlantic City, 16/08/04 Metamorphosis: The Digital Rebirth of Medicine speech Dental Association NJ radio Minimum Wage 16/08/02 Ed Morrissey Show - interview radio 16/07/28 Lars Larson Show Minimum Wage - interview radio 16/07/28 WCHV, Joe Howard Minimum Wage - interview radio Docs for Patient Care, 16/07/28 How Uber will Redefine Healthcare - interview The Doctor's Lounge 16/07/18 op-ed Altarum Institute blog How Uber Will Redefine Health Care (**) - US News and World 16/07/18 op-ed The Rationalia Fallacy - Report radio 16/07/14 Dave Kruser, WVLK How Uber will Redefine Healthcare - interview radio 16/07/12 Lars Larson Show How Uber will Redefine Healthcare - interview
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speech Association Digital World Rock, PA Mercatus Innovator 16/05/31 dinner host Health Care Innovation New York, NY Dinner radio Gesundheit! With
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16/04/26 op-ed e21 Gigs, Jobs, and Smart Machines - International keynote The Elephant Rolls Over: 21st-Century Technology 16/04/10 Foundation of Health Phoenix, AZ
speech Meets 20th-Century Mice Benefit Plans 16/03/25 speech Mercatus Bastiat Health Care Innovation Arlington, VA Fellows Pioneers in Health Conference (AFP &
16/03/20 panel Does health care need disruptive innovation? Denver, CO Adolph Coors Foundations) National Association for Policies to Promote Health Care Innovation: A Walk on Washington, 16/03/05 panel Business Economics the Supply Side DC
16/02/02 op-ed Real Clear Policy ACA: 2016 and 2017 (with Brian Blase) - Obamacare: Outlook For 2016/2017 (with Brian 16/02/02 op-ed Ag Innovator -
Blase) Mercatus Education 16/02/01 dinner host Health Care Innovation US Capitol Dinner 16/01/21 speech Koch Associate Program Reinventing Health Care: IT-Style Innovation Arlington, VA
16/01/15 op-ed Inside Sources Curing Cancer Is Not a Moonshot (with Thomas Stossel) - US News and World
15/12/14b op-ed Calorie Count Costs - Report
15/12/14a op-ed National Review The Case for a Single-Payer Legal Profession -
15/12/09 op-ed Inside Sources $15 Minimum Wage: Engine of Inequality - Mercatus Innovator 15/12/08 dinner host Health Care Innovation Palo Alto, CA Dinner Mercatus Innovator San 15/12/07 dinner host Health Care Innovation Dinner Francisco, CA Mercatus Center 15/12/03 speech Mercatus Center supporters Naples, FL supporters Southern Economic New Orleans, 15/11/21 speech US Medical Devices: Choices and Consequences Association LA New Orleans, 15/11/19 speech IHS at SEA US Medical Devices: Choices and Consequences LA University of Richmond,
15/10/28 speech Richmond/Osher Reinventing Health Care: IT-Style Innovation VA Institute
15/10/23 op-ed Real Clear Policy Replacing the FDA - US Medical Devices: Choices and Consequences (w, 15/10/21 paper Mercatus Center -
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15/09/28 citation Forbes Don't Reform Certificate Of Need (CON), Repeal It - Funding Plan Targets Drug Development for Rare 15/09/25 citation Boston Globe -
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15/09/23 citation Idaho Press Tribune Don't let Hillary Shift Blame for Obamacare's Failures - Benjamin Rush Institute, Georgetown From Fortress to Frontier: How Innovation Can Save Washington, 15/09/11 speech University Medical Health Care DC School Inside State and Local Policy: Health Check Up with 15/09/10 podcast Mercatus -
Robert Graboyes Amazon Kindle 15/09/07 e-book Fortress and Frontier in American Health Care - (republication) Mid-Atlantic Nurse Tysons 15/07/26 speech NAs in the Second Machine Age Anesthetists Corner, VA American Legislative San Diego, 15/07/24 panel Health Care Innovation Exchange Council CA Mercatus Education San Diego, 15/07/22 dinner host Health Care Innovation Dinner CA Mercatus Innovator 15/07/14 dinner host Health Care Innovation Boston, MA Dinner INFO Magazine (São 15/07/01 citation 3-D Printed Prosthetics - Paulo, Brazil) radio
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15/06/09 op-ed Defying Gravity - Policy Too Much Risk with House Minority Positions as 15/05/25 citation Juneau Empire -
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Forum (republication) Revolution Mercatus Center Jacksonville, 15/04/17 speech American Health Care supporters FL Leaders of Tomorrow Biomedical Policy: Disruptive Innovation to Accelerate Gaithersburg, 15/03/31 panel
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15/03/26a Fortress & Frontier in American Health Care Arlington, VA (keynote) Education Program radio
15/03/24b Gary Nolan Show ACA Five Year Anniversary - interview radio
15/03/24a Schilling Show, WINA ACA Five-Year Anniversary - interview radio 15/03/23 CBS Radio ACA Five-Year Anniversary - interview Mercatus/IHS, Scottsdale, 15/03/20 speech Advancing Liberty American Health Care: Reopening the Frontier AZ Retreat WWL radio, New radio
15/03/17 Orleans, Garland Disparities in Health Care Costs - interview Robinette radio American Radio Journal,
15/03/16b Latest Challenge to Obamacare - interview Lowman Henry Institute for Liberty,
15/03/16a podcast In Defense of Capitalism (King v Burwell) - Andrew Langer radio American Radio Journal,
15/03/12b King v Burwell - interview Lowman Henry
15/03/12a op-ed Real Clear Technology Disparities in Health Care Costs - U.S. News and World
15/03/09 op-ed Latest Challenge to Obamacare - Report radio
15/03/05 Ed Dean Show (FL) In Defense of Capitalism (King v Burwell) - interview radio
15/03/04b Illinois Watchdog King v Burwell - interview radio 15/03/04a WBAL King v Burwell - interview Supreme Court Starts Hearings to Determine the Future 15/03/01 interview Newsmax -
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15/02/19 speech Let’s Talk Health Care Foundation DC American Urological Palm Springs, 15/02/08 speech Fortress and Frontier Association CA From Fortress to Frontier: How Innovation Can Save 15/01/14 video Mercatus -
Health Care U.S. News and World Why Consumer Surveys Aren't the Best Way to 15/01/12 op-ed -
Report Determine the Affordable Care Act's Impact PBS News Hour,
15/01/09 essay Why We Need to Liberate America’s Health Care - Making Sen$e C-Span/Washington
15/01/01 TV panel 2015 Economic Outlook, with Elise Gould - Journal Altarum Health Policy
14/12/18 op-ed Making Health Care Innovate Like IT - Forum Univ. of Md./Inforum College Park, 14/12/11 panel The Future of Health Care Outlook Conference MD Virginia Association of Fortress and Frontier: Nurse Anesthetists in a Young 14/12/06 speech Roanoke, VA Nurse Anesthetists Century radio Real Clear Radio, Bill
14/11/24 The Health Care Fortress - interview Frezza Mercatus Center Scottsdale, 14/11/20 speech Fortress and Frontier supporters AZ radio 14/11/18 WTAD, Quincy, IL Fortress and Frontier - interview Free Market Medical 14/11/17e telelecture Fortress and Frontier - Association radio 14/11/17d John Batchelor Show Fortress and Frontier/Open Enrollment - interview radio Illinois Watchdog Radio,
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14/10/20c paper Mercatus Center Fortress and Frontier in American Health Care - paper
14/10/20b Mercatus Center Fortress and Frontier in American Health Care - summary McClatchy-Trbune
14/10/20a op-ed How to Restart Health Care Reform - papers 14/10/09 speech State Policy Network Creating Opportunities for Alternative Pathways Arlington, VA award
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14/09/28c op-ed Real Clear Policy Obamacare Cancellations: Blame 'AV Drift' - US News & World
14/09/28b op-ed If You Like Your Plan, You Still Can't Keep It - Report Why Your Plan Was Cancelled: Health Insurance and 14/09/28a video Mercatus Center -
the Affordable Care Act Volunteers Use 3-D Printers to Make Inexpensive 14/09/25 interview Reuters -
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14/09/16 speech Institute/Georgetown Islands of Innovation DC University American Legislative Fortress and Frontier/Dallas, We Have a Problem 14/08/20 video -
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Campus American Healthcare DC Reason (winterviewed
14/07/01b video How to Grow the Supply of Healthcare - by Nick Gillespie)
14/07/01a op-ed Reason Innovation Is the Key to Health Care Reform - Va. General Assembly Richmond, 14/06/24 speech Medicaid, Reforms, and Innovation Medicaid Roundtable VA
14/06/17 commentary Mercatus Center Mercatus Summer Reading List (suggestions) - Mercatus Center 14/06/04b speech Fiscal Realities of the Affordable Care Act San Antonio supporters Mercatus Center 14/06/04a speech Fiscal Realities of the Affordable Care Act Austin, TX supporters Mercatus Center 14/06/03 speech Fiscal Realities of the Affordable Care Act Houston, TX supporters Mercatus Center 14/06/02 speech Fiscal Realities of the Affordable Care Act Dallas, TX supporters Hipster Health Insurance 101: Advice For When You're 14/05/31b op-ed Reason -
Getting the Short End of the Stick 14/05/31a speech Mercatus Center/IHS ACA and the Role of Entrepreneurialism Arlington, VA Associated General 14/05/28 speech 2014: Innovations in Health Care Arlington, VA Contractors of DC Mercatus Center San 14/05/08 speech American Health Care: The Frontier Reborn supporters Francisco, CA
14/05/06 op-ed Politico Magazine Both Sides Are Losing the Health Care Debate - Embassy of Poland Moderator at speech by Marek Belka, Governor of the 14/04/25 moderator - (Washington) National Bank of Poland RRG/SPWG Joint Washington, 14/04/23 speech Reinventing Health Care Policy Meeting DC Mercatus Center, MA 14/04/22 speech Introduction to Health Economics Arlington, VA Fellows American Health Care: Closing of the Frontier Illinois Institute of 14/04/11 panel (Benjamin Franklin Project on The Infrastructures of Chicago, IL Technology Creativity: Institutions and Innovation in the 18th and 21st Centuries)
book Medicaid and Health, in The Economics of Medicaid: 14/04/08 Mercatus Center -
chapter Assessing the Costs and Consequences Emerging Issues in Philanthropy, Seminar on the Washington, 14/04/07 panel Urban Institute Affordable Care Act DC
14/03/31 op-ed USA Hispanic Press Medicaid Le Falla A Los Hispanos - EGP News & Dallas How Medicaid Fails Hispanics (co-author, Mario 14/03/27b op-ed - Morning News Villarreal) National Economists Washington, 14/03/27a speech American Health Care: Getting Past Groundhog Day Club DC Mercatus/IHS Scottsdale, 14/03/21 speech Advancing Liberty American Health Care: Reopening the Frontier AZ Retreat Foundation for 14/03/14 telelecture Government Does Medicaid Really Help Small Employers? - Accountability
14/03/03 commentary Mercatus Center Economic Experts on FY 2015 Budget -
14/02/24b op-ed Real Clear Markets In the Healthcare Debate, Every Day is Groundhog Day -
14/01/24a commentary Mercatus Center Mercatus Scholars on the 2014 State of the Union - U.S. News and World What Green Plastic Fingers Prove about Health Care 14/01/22 op-ed -
Report Innovation
14/01/07 podcast Mercatus Center Health Care: Searching for Steve Jobs - 14/01/03 panel State Policy Network Talking Health Care Philadelphia Affordable Care Act is a Problem for Much More Than 13/12/12 op-ed Real Clear Markets -
the 5%
13/12/03b podcast Mercatus Center Medicaid Expansion: State Policy Challenges - Mercatus Capitol Hill Exploring The ACA: What Is The Impact and What Is 13/12/03a video -
Campus lecture Necessary for Successful Reform? 13/11/24 TV panel WJLA-TV, Capital Insider Affordable Care Act - C-Span at National My introduction of (at 0:00) and interview with Ben 13/11/19 video -
Economists Club Bernanke (at 36:00) Richmond Times-
13/11/17 op-ed Medicaid Expansion: States Under Duress - Dispatch US News & World Another Way Taxpayers Lose Under the Affordable 13/11/11 op-ed -
Report Care Act
13/11/07 op-ed USA Today American Medicine: Closing of the Frontier? - If They Ever Fix The Obamacare Website, The Worst 13/10/31 op-ed Forbes.com -
May Be Yet To Come 13/10/30 speech Mercatus Center staff Supply-side Health Economics Arlington, VA radio
13/10/29 WCCO Americans Losing Their Current Health Care Plans - interview radio
13/10/25 Peter Schiff Show What a Real Affordable Care Act Looks Like - interview Creative Financial Obamacare: What You Don’t Know and How It Could Springfield, 13/10/17 speech Group Impact Your Business PA Mercatus Center 13/10/16 speech Health Care Reform New York, NY supporters Altarum Health Policy
13/10/15 op-ed Obamacare Subsidies: Runaway Truck - Forum The American Health Care System: Principles for 13/10/14 paper Mercatus Center -
Successful Reform Investor's Business Affordable Care Act Will Enrich Insurers At Taxpayers' 13/10/11b op-ed -
Daily Expense
13/10/11a TV interview WJLA-TV, Capital Insider Healthcare Reform - radio
13/10/09 WTAD, Quincy, IL Obamacare and Millennials - interview US News & World
13/10/07 op-ed Affordable Care Act Is a Raw Deal for Millennials - Report Washington,
13/10/04 panel Cato Institute The Obamacare Catastrophe DC radio
13/10/03 John Batchelor Show Disruptive Innovation in Health Care - interview
13/10/02 op-ed McClatchy Trbune Paging Dr. Jobs - Rural Counties Healthcare in 2014: Affordable Care Act, Families, and South Lake 13/09/25b panel Representatives of Small Business Owners Tahoe, CA California radio
13/09/25a Jason Lewis Show The Affordable Care Act and Health Care in America - interview
NFIB Healthcare Bulletin: Periodic email blasts
13/06/27 Aggregation Aggravation 13/04/22 SHOP Chopped: Opt Dropped 13/02/21 End the Employer Mandate Now 12/12/20 Will PPACA Self/repeal? 12/10/16 PPACA for Employees: The Good the Bad and the Ugly 12/08/22 Small Business under PPACA: Behind the Eight/ball 12/06/20 The Day After: Health Care Reform after NFIB v Sebelius 12/05/31 Self/insurance and Small Business 12/04/03 Health Care Law Blues: They Hear That Train a-Comin’ 12/02/24 Cashews on the Hindenburg 11/11/28 PPACA’s Pyroclastic Plume 11/09/28 PPACA: Five Layers of Uncertainty 11/08/09 PPACA and the Jobless Recovery 11/06/14 The HIT Hit: PPACA's Health Insurance Tax 11/05/03 Essential Health Benefits: The Secretary’s Joystick 11/04/03 The Incredible Shrinking Small Business Tax Credit 11/03/09 Small Business in Waiver World 11/01/06 Caught in the Middle (Douglas Holtz-Eakin, co/author) 10/10/20 No sales tax on home sales, BUT ... 10/10/04 Costs and the Law that Shall Not Be Named 10/08/31 1099 Collation Calamity 10/07/07 Premium Credits + Free Rider Provision = Mystery Tax 10/05/25 Healthcare Law vs. Employee Privacy 10/05/13 Small Business Tax Credit: Less Than Meets the Eye 10/04/19 The Majestic Equality of the Healthcare Law 10/03/18 To Congress: Three Proverbs for Healthcare Reform 09/10/15 Health Insurance Exchanges 09/08/19 Healthcare Reform and Wages 09/07/24 The Problem with Prevention 09/07/14 Healthcare lesson from Massachusetts: Deal with costs from Day One
Altarum Blogs: Columns written for the Altarum Institute’s Health Policy Forum
12/08/21 Small Business Under PPACA: Behind the Eight-ball 12/06/19 The Day After: Health Care Reform After NFIB v Sebelius 12/04/03 Health Care Law Blues: They Hear That Train a-Comin’ 12/02/16 Cashews on the Hindenburg 11/12/20 Small Business and Exchanges: SHOP Till You Drop 11/10/11 Health Care Law Subsidies: A Tale of Two Cities 11/08/09 PPACA and the Jobless Recovery 11/06/14 HIT Hit: (PPACA’s Health Insurance Tax) 11/05/03 Essential Health Benefits: The Secretary’s Joystick 11/02/08 Small Business Health Care Wish List: Repeal and Replace 10/04/27 Health Reform / New Burdens for Small Business
CribSheets: Summaries of Small Business Issues
12/09/28 #12/17 PPACA: A Healthcare Law Guide for Employees 12/09/08 #12/16 Small Business Tax Rates and Tax Complexity 12/08/24 #12/15 PPACA: Medicare Wage/Salary and Investment Tax 12/09/21 #12/14 Healthcare Solutions: Interstate Insurance Markets 12/09/21 #12/13 Healthcare Solutions: Portability 12/08/10 #12/12 Healthcare Solutions: Tax Parity for Insurance 12/08/10 #12/11 Healthcare Solutions: Defined Contribution Plans 12/08/10 #12/10 Healthcare Solutions: Malpractice Reform 12/07/27 #12/9 Fiscal Cliff 2013 (before the deal) 12/07/27 #12/8 PPACA Timeline 12/07/13 #12/7 PPACA: Employer Mandate Penalty Calculations 12/07/08 #12/6 NFIB Healthcare Solutions 12/06/22 #12/5 IRS Form 1099 12/03/15 #12/4 PPACA: Problems for Small Business 12/02/29 #12/3 PPACA’s Health Insurance Tax (HIT) 12/02/15 #12/2 PPACA: The Individual Mandate Tax 12/01/15 #12/1 EPA: Lead Renovation, Repair and Painting Program 11/12/01 #11/2 PPACA: Small Business Health Insurance Tax Credit 11/11/15 #11/1 PPACA: Employer Mandate Penalties
Miscellaneous writings, speeches, long interviews
12/02 CoBank Interview (cobank.com) 10/12/01 Job Stagnation: Lost Years’ Legacy Urban Institute speech (Urban Institute speech) 09/07/20 Healthcare Reform and Small Business (National Conference of State Legislatures speech) 09/06/23 Healthcare and Small Business: Problems and Fixes (National Economists Club speech) 09/05/28 Small Business and Healthcare Reform (American Benefits Council speech) 08/2007 Robb Mandelbaum interview (inc.com)
Washington Post: Healthcare Rx blog
10/03/31 Not an ending, only a beginning 10/03/19 It will ravage small business 10/03/11 The cash cows' beef 10/02/24 Peggy Lee sings health care 10/01/21 Retreat, rethink, return to principles 10/01/14 Beware. Destination unknown 09/01/07 A kick in the teeth 09/12/15 Doughnuts in the parking lot 09/12/21 Disaster turns to disgrace 09/11/30 With a huge pen and sharp scissors 09/11/18 Not Lucy Ricardo, but not Godot 09/11/03 Start with a smaller burger 09/10/29 Not enough, and yet too much 09/10/22 Westminster health-care show 09/10/07 Killer Tax on Low-Income Workers? No! 09/09/17 Malpractice Matters 09/08/07 Umpire or Play Ball, Not Both 09/07/29 Amending Marshal Lyautey 09/07/24 Rein Costs In or They'll Rein Us In 09/07/16 Only If You Like Killing Jobs 09/07/02 Innovation, Timeliness, Choice, Quality 09/06/16 Message to Obama from Small Businesses
Doctoral Dissertation
2000 Graboyes, Robert F. Indemnities versus Deductibles in Health Insurance: Relative Efficiency in Deterring Low-Benefit Medical Treatments. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Columbia University, 2000. Dissertation committee: Dr. Sherry Glied (chair), Ken Leonard, Dan O’Flaherty, Abigail Tay, Josh Zivin
Master’s Thesis
1981 Graboyes, Robert F. Information, Rationality, and Politics: A Critique of Anthony Downs's An Economic Theory of Democracy. Unpublished master’s thesis, College of William and Mary, 1981. Thesis committee: Donald J Baxter (chair), Roger W. Smith, Edward J. Woodhouse.
Peer-reviewed Paper Published
2004 “Comment Dit-On «Standard Deviation»?: An Effortless Business-Language Curriculum” Global Business Languages
Unpublished paper
Graboyes, R, Hanson, R, and Monks, J. “Choosing health versus wealth: a laboratory survey.”
Technical papers published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
2000-08 “Our Money or Your Life: Indemnities vs. Deductibles in Health Insurance” Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Working Paper 2000-08 “Getting Better, Feeling Worse: Cure Rates, Health Insurance, and Welfare” Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Working Papers 2000-08 “Medicine Worse than the Malady: Cure Rates, Population Shifts, and Health Insurance” Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Working Papers 1994-F “Medical Care Price Indexes” Economic Quarterly, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond 1991-09 “International Trade and Payments Data” Economic Review, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond 1990-07 “The EMU: Forerunners and Durability” Economic Review, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, July/August 1990. English, French, and German adaptations published by the Centre International de Formation Européenne 1990-08 “A Yankee Recipe for a EuroFed Omelet” Wall Street Journal/Europe, August 1, 1990. Reprinted in Economic Review, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, July/August 1990. Reprinted in Central Banking 1990 “Wicksell's Monetary Framework and Dynamic Stability” (co-author, Thomas M. Humphrey); Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Working Papers
Book Chapters
1995/96 “Derivatives Made E-Z” Readings on Financial Institutions and Markets, 1995-1996 Edition (Irwin), Peter S. Rose, ed. 1994 “Security (not guns) and Butter” in Economics 93/94, ed. Don Cole, Dushkin Publishing Group; Guilford, CT
Other Writings
2011-01 “Does Healthcare Reform Help U.S. Business?” Council on Foreign Relations expert panel 2011-01 “New ‘Medicare’ Taxes To Hit Middle Class,” co-authored with Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Investor's Business Daily 2006-12 “Asian Texas: Borat Misrepresents the Real Kazakhstan,” Richmond Times-Dispatch 2006-10 “A Wealth of Trouble” (a financial derivatives approach to fighting obesity), forbes.com 2005-04 Book Review: Lives at Risk: Single-Payer National Health Insurance Around the World, by John C. Goodman, Gerald L. Musgrave, and Devon M. Herrick. Reviewed in Business Economics 2001/02 “Why We Want What We Want” Equilibria #7, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond 2001/02 “... And Why What We Want Bugs Economists” Equilibria #7, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond 2001/02 “Why Vote? (Alex Rothenberg, co-author)” Equilibria #7, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond 1998/99 “You Paid How Much for that Seat?” Equilibria #6, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond 1998/99 “Cattle Drive Contracts: Economics in Literature” Equilibria #6, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond 1998/99 “Selling Short: Fruit 'n' Finance” Equilibria #6, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond 1998/99 “Seeing Economics at Gallaudet” Equilibria #5, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond 1998/99 “The Economics of Language” Equilibria #5, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond 1998/99 “The Bank at the End of the Universe” Equilibria #5, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond 1998/99 “Physics, Economics, Science” Equilibria #5, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond 1998/99 “Non-sedating Economics: Three Book Reviews” Equilibria #5, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond 1997/98 The Loneliest Teacher” Equilibria #4, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond 1997/98 “Grandpa's Neighbor” Equilibria #4, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond 1997/98 “George, Mickey, Michael, and Money” Equilibria #4, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond 1997/98 “Experimental Economics: Games Economists Play” Equilibria #4, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond 1997/98 “Rear Windows, Trade Deficits” Equilibria #3, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond 1997/98 “The Free Trade Debate: 221 Years Running” Equilibria #3, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond 1996/97 “Viewer, Puzzler, Pleader, Seer” Equilibria #2, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond 1996/97 “Inflation, Health Care, and Quality” Equilibria #2, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, 1996/97 “Health Economics: The Physician's Visitor” Equilibria #2, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond 1996/97 “Secondary Effects Matter” Equilibria #1, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, 1996/97 1996/97 “Does the Fed Drive Interest Rates?” Equilibria #1, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, 1996/97 1996/97 “Public Choice: The Economics of Government” Equilibria #1, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond 93/Fall “Services Drive Employment but Not Output” Cross Sections, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond 93/Summer “Fifth District Economic Developments in 1992” Cross Sections, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond 93/Spring “Health Care: Rising Costs and Public Policy” Cross Sections, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond 1995 “Los Terremotos Latinos Causan Temblores en Virginia” El Sol de Virginia. 1994 “NAFTA, GATT y el Libre Comercio” El Sol de Virginia. 1993-05 “Defense Downsizing” Capitol Forum. 1990 “Gush, Gush, Sweet Charlotte” Richmond Times-Dispatch.
SELECTED INVITED LECTURES 13/04/23 “Obamacare 2014,” NFIB Small Business Day, Sacramento, CA. 13/03/27 “Health Insurance Exchange Preview,” webinar with Covered California leadership. 13/03/26 “Obamacare and Compliance,” National Automobile Auction Association, webinar. 13/03/21 “Obamacare and Small Business,” Young Presidents Organization, Missoula, MT. 13/03/20 “Obamacare and Small Business,” Young Presidents Organization, Bozeman, MT. 13/03/19 “Obamacare and Small Business,” Young Presidents Organization, Billings, MT. 13/03/11 “Part/time America,” Heritage Foundation, Washington, DC. 13/02/18 “PPACA Q&A,” National Wooden Pallet and Container Association, Orlando, FL. 13/02/13 “Small Business Day,” NFIB, Atlanta, GA. 12/12/12 “NFIB Healthcare Law Webinar,” Washington, DC. 12/11/12 “Small Business and Healthcare Reform,” Randolph/Macon College, Ashland, VA. 12/10/08 “PPACA and Small Business,” National Forest Recreation Association, Reno, NV. 12/10/02 “Healthcare Law Update,” Farm Equipment Manufacturers Association, Jacksonville, FL. 12/09/13 “Healthcare Law Update,” NFIB, Conshohocken, PA. 12/09/12 “Healthcare Law Update,” NFIB, Conshohocken, PA. 12/08/28 “Healthcare Reform and Small Business,” NFIB Leadership Council, Madison, WI. 12/08/27 “Healthcare Reform and Small Business,” NFIB Members, LaCrosse, WI. 12/08/26 “Healthcare Reform and Small Business,” Mid-States Distributors, Madison, WI. 13/08/21 “Small Business in America,” visiting business group from Yemen, Washington, DC. 12/07/30 “Competition in the Era of PPACA,” American Bar Association Antitrust Section, Chicago, IL. 12/06/26 “PPACA at the Supreme Court,” Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy, Richmond, VA. 13/06/11 “Small Business in America,” visiting business group from Kosovo, Washington, DC. 12/04/15 “Healthcare Law Update,” National Air Transportation Association, Washington, DC. 12/04/11 “Small Business in America,” visiting business group from Iraq, Washington, DC. 12/03/30 “Health Care Reform and Main Street – The Impact on Small Business,” National Association of Specialty Health Organizations, New Orleans, LA. 12/03/30 “Big Muddy for Small Business: The 2010 Healthcare Law and More Mire, Unless...,” Professional Administrative Co/Employers (PACE), New Orleans, LA. 12/03/30 “How Is the Healthcare Law Like Lake Pontchtrain?” NFIB/LA, Metairie, LA. 12/03/15 “Small Business Day,” NFIB/CO, Denver, CO. 12/02/29 “PPACA and Innovation,” Healthcare Delivery Innovation Alliance, Phoenix, AZ. 12/01/22 “2010 Healthcare Law,” Hope College visitors, Washington, DC. 12/01/17 “Healthcare Reform,” Domenici Forum, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM. 12/01/16 “PPACA Piñata,” Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of El Paso, El Paso, TX. 12/01/13 “PPACA and Your Business,” NFIB/NM, Santa Fe, NM. 12/01/12 “PPACA: Risk & Uncertainty,” New Mexico Angels, Albuquerque, NM. 12/01/12 “PPACA and Your Business,” NFIB/NM and ABC, Albuquerque, NM. 11/12/13 “The New Market: Small and Large Businesses,” NCQA, Washington, DC. 11/11/11 “Health Insurance Exchanges and Small Business,” Baltimore, MD. 11/10/28 “Healthcare Reform, University Reform,” American University, Washington, DC. 11/10/03 “Federal Healthcare Reform: The Search for Sasquatch,” NFIB/OR, Bend, OR. 11/09/28 “Federal Healthcare Reform / What it Means for Your Business” or “A Rainy Night in Georgia, South Carolina, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Louisiana, and Alabama,” webinar. 11/08/14 “Healthcare Reform: How High’s the Water, Mama?” Industrial Association of Quincy, IL. 11/07/14 “Health Care Reform Workshop,” Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Richmond, VA. 11/07/12 “Don’t Believe This Title: What You Don’t Know You Don’t Know about Healthcare,” LeadAmerica, Georgetown University, Washington, DC. 11/06/29 “Health Care Reform,” webinar for NFIB/NC/VA/WV. 11/06/16 “Healthcare Reform Update,” TDAmeritrade, Miami Beach, FL. 11/05/25 “PPACA and Small Business,” Small Business Day, State Capitol, Baton Rouge, LA. 11/05/19 “The Health Care Overhaul: Threat or Opportunity for Your Business?” New York Association of Convenience Stores, Rochester, NY. 11/04/13 “PPACA Update,” Council on Affordable Health Insurance, Washington, DC. 10/12/10 “The New Unemployment and What to Do About It,” Urban Institute, Washington, DC. 10/11/21 “Employers and Healthcare Reform: What Does the Future Hold?” (panel discussion) National Conference of Insurance Legislators, Austin, TX. 10/11/15 “Soaring Cost of New Cancer Treatment / How Will We Address It?” (panel discussion) iiBIG Oncology Payer Conference , Baltimore, MD. 10/11/09 “The PPACA: Small Business and the New Horizon,” GTCBio Healthcare Reform Conference, Arlington, VA. 10/11/04 “Healthcare Law and Small Business” Farm Equipment Manufacturers Association, Dallas, TX. 10/10/07 “The Healthcare Law: Small Business & the New Horizon” National Association of Convenience Stores, 10/07/10. 10/10/01 “The Trillion Dollar Question: Implications of Medicare Sustainability” Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University, Health Care Business Alliance Conference, Nashville, TN. 10/09/23 “The Healthcare Law and Small Business,” World Congress, Tysons Corner, VA 10/09/15 “The Healthcare Law: All Aboard the Mystery Train,” NFIB Area Action Council, Memphis, TN 10/09/10 “The Healthcare Law: Rollin’ ‘round the Bend,” Hylant Group, Nashville, TN 10/07/26 “Behind the Curtain: The Healthcare Law’s Impact on Small Business,” U.S. Chamber of Commerce/NFIB/American Action Forum Conference, Washington, DC. 10/07/21 “Healthcare Law: Into the Wild Blue Yonder,” National Air Transportation Association webinar, Washington, DC. 10/06/24 “Into Each Life, Some Rain Must Fall,” Women’s Business Enterprise National Council, Baltimore, MD. 10/06/23 “Healthcare Reform: Here Be Dragons,” Charlotte Economics Club, Charlotte, NC. 10/06/15 “Healthcare Reform: An Initial Checkup,” American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC. 10/05/21 “How Will the New Health Care Plan Affect Your Business ,” CFESA, Chicago, IL. 10/05/21 “How Will the New Health Care Plan Affect Your Business ,” NFIB Area Action Council, Aurora, IL. 10/04/27 “Small Business and Healthcare Reform,” National Air Transportation Association, Alexandria, VA. 10/03/15 “Healthcare Reform 2010,” KMU (Taiwan) Associates’ Program, Washington, DC. 10/02/24 “Small Business and Healthcare Reform: Where Now?” NABE Small Business / Entrepreneurial Roundtable (webinar), Washington, DC. 10/02/09 “Prospects for Healthcare Reform,” Heritage Foundation, Blogger’s Briefing, Washington, DC. 10/02/04 “Healthcare Reform 2010: Johnny Cash to Dinah Washington,” World Congress, Washington, DC. 10/01/25 “Healthcare Reform 2010: Johnny Cash to Dinah Washington,” National Air Transportation Association, San Antonio, TX. 09/12/10 “Healthcare Reform and Small Business,” Employee Benefits Research Institute, Washington, DC. 09/09/30 “Deep Dive into Health Care Reform – What it Means to You and Your Market,” World Congress, Alexandria, VA. 09/07/20 “Healthcare Reform and Small Business,” National Conference of State Legislatures, Philadelphia, PA. 09/06/23 “Healthcare and Small Business: Problems and Fixes” National Economists Club, Washington, DC. 09/05/28 “Small Business and Healthcare Reform,” (panel discussion) American Benefits Council, Washington, DC. 08/07/25 “Federal Health Care Reform and Small Business: What Are the Key Components to a Successful Plan?” (panel discussion) National Conference of State Legislatures, New Orleans, LA. 08/07/12 “State Healthcare Innovations: What Works, What Doesn’t?” (panel discussion) National Conference of Insurance Legislators, New York City, NY. 08/07/08 “Small Business Healthcare Briefing” Council on Affordable Health Insurance, Washington, DC. 08/06/05 “Opinion/Makers’ Forum” (panel discussion) Legislative Office Building, Hartford, CT. 08/02/14 “Health Care: When It’s Fixed for Small Business, It’s Fixed for America” Charlotte Economics Club, Charlotte, NC 08/02/13 “Surgeon and Pilot” University of North Carolina – Charlotte, Charlotte, NC 08/02/06 “NFIB: Small Business Healthcare Principles” Independent Insurance Agents of Virginia, Richmond, VA. 07/11/02 “Individual Mandate: Inevitable, Unsustainable or Both?” School of Public Health – University of California – Berkeley 07/08/26 “American Health Care System: Don’t You Call Me, ‘Cause I Can’t Go” NFIB Texas Leadership Council, Bastrop, TX 07/08/07 “Employer Provided Health Care (Dis)Advantage: Small Business Perspective” National Conference of State Legislatures, Boston, MA
07/07/11 “Surgeon and Pilot: Who Chooses?” American Institute for Economic Research, Great Barrington, MA 07/03/27 “Surgeon and Pilot: Can Consumers Choose?” University of Richmond Pre/Health Professions Club 07/03/19 “Desert, Health, and Aid” Quest University Canada, Squamish, British Columbia, Canada 07/03/15 “Who Says No?: Consumer Sovereignty In Health Care” Kaohsiung Medical University, Richmond, VA 07/03/09 “Seven Lessons in Risk,” U.S. State Department, Arlington, VA 06-06/05 “Choosing Health vs. Wealth: A Laboratory Experiment” American Society of Health Economists, Madison, WI 05/11/05 “Language Across the Curriculum: The Richmond Model” Foreign Languages and Cultures Conference, Iowa City, IA 05/11/01 “Health Care Update” National Business Council on Economic Issues, Philadelphia, PA 05/05/10 “Health Care Update” National Business Council on Economic Issues, Washington, DC 05/03/17 “Nutrition and Obesity” Virginia Commonwealth University, to visiting Taiwanese medical group. 04/10/28 “Life, Death, Bones, and Obesity: Consumer/Driven Health Insurance and Economic Experiments” University of Central Florida, Department of Health Professions 04/10/20 “Life, Death, Bones, and Obesity: Consumer/Driven Health Insurance and Economic Experiments” Virginia Commonwealth University, Dept. of Economics 04/09/23 “Consumer-Driven Health Insurance: Economic Experiments in Life, Death, and Obesity” Virginia Commonwealth University, Medical Campus 04/09/07 “Obesity: An Economic View”, Virginia Commonwealth University Medical School, Grand Rounds 04/07/22 "Eating Medicare: The Economic Impact of Today's Lunch on Tomorrow's Health" Richmond Association for Business Economics 03/07/13 "Indemnities: Unmasking the Health/Wealth Tradeoff" Western Economic Association International, Denver, CO 03/06/16 "High Cost, Low Benefit: Inducing Patients to Opt Out?" International Health Economics Association, San Francisco, CA. 03/05/02 "Health/Wealth Experiment Project: Finding the Margin" Proposal for using economic experiments for generating health insurance data": George Mason University, IFREE Visiting Scholar Lecture Series at ICES Arlington, VA. (IFREE is the research department headed by Nobel Laureate Vernon L. Smith.) 03/04/03 "Comment Dit/On "Standard Deviation"?*: An Effortless Business/Language Curriculum." Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER), Miami Beach, FL. 02/09/18 "High Cost, Low Benefit." Research luncheon, University of Richmond. Richmond, VA. 02/04/25 "High Cost, Low Benefit: Inducing Patients to Opt Out?" Research luncheon, Virginia Commonwealth University medical campus. Richmond, VA. 99/06/09 "Health Care Policy." Pension Managers' Group. Richmond, VA. 98/05/14 "The Role of the Federal Reserve." Central Bank of Armenia. Richmond, VA. 98/02/12 “Medical Care and the Regional Economy." Richmond Medical Group Management Association. Richmond, VA. 97/09/18 “Technology: Why It Bites Back." National Council on Economic Education. Indianapolis, IN. 97/07/15 “CPI: The Burden of Bias." Southeastern Association of Tax Administrators. Richmond, VA. 97/06/05 “Happiness, Health, and the CPI." Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Dallas, TX. 97/06/02 “The Fed and the Federal Government." Guangdong Development Bank of Shenzhen, Richmond, VA. 97/06/16 “CPI Reform." Charleston Southern University. Charleston, SC. 97/03/18 “Happiness, Health, and the CPI." Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Small Business and Agriculture Advisory Council. Richmond, VA. 97-11/04 “The Federal Reserve." Gallaudet University. Washington, DC. 97-11/04 “Teaching and the Language of Economics." Gallaudet University. Washington, DC. 97-11/03 “Economics and Deafness." Gallaudet University. Washington DC. 97-11/03 “Introducing the Federal Reserve." Gallaudet University. Washington, DC. 96-10/16 “CPI Reform." James Madison University. Harrisonburg, VA. 94-09/27 “Medical Care Price Indexes." National Association of Business Economists Policy Conference. Washington, DC. 93-10/08 “Industrial Sectors: U.S. vs. State Trends." Co-authored with Stephen Stanley. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Dallas, TX, 91-02/06 “Structure of Monetary Policy." College of William and Mary Business School. Williamsburg, VA. 90-10/26 “Wicksell's Monetary Framework and Dynamic Stability." Co-authored with Thomas Humphrey. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Atlanta, GA. 90-10/11 “Unburdening the Data." Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. Kansas City, MO. 83-11 “The IMF and Rescheduling." 11/83, Chase Bank Nigeria. Lagos, Nigeria.
PROFESSIONAL SESSIONS ORGANIZED AND CHAIRED
National Federation of Independent Business
2008 “Healthcare Forum: Will Reform Become Reality?” Stephen Moore (Wall Street Journal), Ceci Connolly (Washington Post), Chris Frates (Politico) 2008 “Healthcare Forum: Does Portability Enhance Affordability?” Stuart Butler (Heritage Foundation), Devon Herrick (National Center for Policy Analysis), Scott Keefer (America’s Health Insurance Plans), Karen Davenport (Center for American Progress). 2008 “Healthcare Forum: Coverage vs. Cost: What’s the Priority?” Katherine Hayes (Clinton campaign), Douglas Holtz-Eakin (McCain campaign), Kavita Patel (Obama campaign). 2008 Healthcare Forum: Are Individual Mandates the Answer? Michael Cannon (Cato Institute), Sherry Glied (Columbia University), Peter Harbage (Center for American Progress), Bob Moffit (Heritage Foundation).
Small Business Administration
2008 “Options Cost and Coverage: Healthcare Chicken and Egg” Newt Gingrich (Former Speaker of the House), Michael O. Leavitt (Department of Health and Human Services), David B. Kendall (Progressive Policy Institute), Kirsten Sloan (Divided We Fail and AARP), and Nina Owcharenko (Heritage Foundation), Washington, DC. National Association for Business Economics
2013 “Higher Education Finance: Housing Bubble with Tenure?” George Leef (John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy) and Joseph Minarik (Committee for Economic Development) 2007 “Options for Medicaid Reform—Enhancements or Radical Change?” Devon Herrick (National Center for Policy Analysis) and Judith Solomon (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities), Washington, DC. 2006 “Health Care, Information, and Technology: A New World for Business” Blackford Middleton (Harvard Medical School) and Isaac S. Kohane (Harvard Medical School), Boston, MA. 2006 “Policy Solutions to Cost Shifting in Health Care” Louis F. Rossiter (College of William and Mary), Deborah Chollet (Mathematica Policy Research), and Richard Scheffler (University of California at Berkeley), Washington, DC. 2005 “Consumer-Oriented Health Economics: Past, Present, Future” James G. Rodgers (Blue Cross Blue Shield of America), James A. Hayes (Consultant, New Mexico), and Jeff Black (Mercer Human Resources Consulting), Chicago, IL. 2005 “Health Care Policy: The Way Forward: A look at federal health care policy reforms that address the three pillars of cost, access, and quality” Harvey Rosen (Council of Economic Advisors), Washington, DC. 2004 “Consumer-drive Health Care” John Goodman (National Center for Policy Analysis) and Ben Cutler (Fortis Health), Washington, DC.
TEACHING
Graduate level
2012-2013 Department of Health Services Management and Leadership, The George Washington University. Health Economics and Finance. 2008-2013 Department of Health Administration and Policy, Master’s of Health Administration, George Mason University. Health Economics and Finance. 2005-2014 School of Nursing, Master’s of Nursing, University of Virginia. Health Economics and Finance. 2002 Department of Economics, Master’s of Business Administration, University of Richmond. Managerial Economics. 2001-2003 Department of Economics, Master’s of Business Administration, University of Richmond. Quantitative Analysis. 2000-2017 Department of Health Administration, Executive Masters Program, Virginia Commonwealth University. Health Economics and Finance. 2000 Department of Health Administration, Master’s Program, Virginia Commonwealth University. Health Economics and Finance. 1999-2012 School of Allied Health Professions, Doctoral Program in Health Related Science, Virginia Commonwealth University. Health Economics and Finance. 1999-2018 Miscellaneous thesis and dissertation advising.
Undergraduate level
2002-2007 Department of Economics, University of Richmond. Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Business Statistics, Quantitative Analysis, Health Economics, Social Analysis, Language Across the Curriculum. 1983 Department of Economics, Hunter College, New York City. Macroeconomics.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE ACTIVITIES
Editorial Boards and Reviews
Editorial Board Member, Business Economics. Reviewer, Business Economics, Health Economics, International Journal of Public Policy, Contemporary Economic Policy, Health Care Management Science.
International, National, and Regional Committees
2001-2002 AP Curriculum Committee, National Council on Economic Education. 2001 Grant Proposal Reviewer, Freedom Grants Proposal, U.S. State Department. 1995-1996 Board of Medical Price Measurement Experts, U.S. General Accounting Office. 1992 Economic Impact Study Commission, Virginia Commonwealth University.
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY ACTIVITY
2010-2012 Board of Advisors, Benjamin Rush Society 2013 Chairman of the Board, National Economists Club (NEC), Washington, DC. 2012 President, National Economists Club (NEC), Washington, DC 2011 Executive Board, Healthcare Delivery Innovation Alliance 2010-2011 VP for Programs, National Economists Club (NEC), Washington, DC 2009 Secretary, National Economists Club (NEC), Washington, DC 2004-2006 Chair, National Association for Business Economics (NABE), Health Economics Roundtable 2003-2004 Secretary-Treasurer, National Association for Business Economics (NABE), Health Economics Roundtable 1991-1995 Board of Directors, Virginia Association of Economists (VAE) 1989-1991 President, Richmond Association of Business Economists (RABE), Richmond, VA 1989 Secretary, RABE, Richmond, VA
Memberships
American Economic Association American Society for Health Economics International Health Economics Association National Association for Business Economics National Economists Club