Source: Orange County Register With some embarrassment, Covered California (the state’s Obamacare exchange where people can purchase health coverage) has announced the average premium hike next year will be 13.2 …
Forbes: Taxpayers can be relieved that less than a handful of insurers have decided to go for a judicial bailout, says NCPA Senior Fellow John Graham in his commentary at Forbes.
Forbes: NCPA Senior Fellow John Graham says that as time progresses, taxpayers are shouldering a higher share of Obamacare’s costs, in a commentary at Forbes.
Forbes: An NCPA study finds that when patients control a larger share of their health spending, it results in lesser health spending overall, says NCPA Senior Fellow John Graham in a commentary at Forbes.
Forbes: In a commentary at Forbes, NCPA Senior Fellow John Graham discusses the ongoing attempts to transform American health care from a top-heavy, bureaucratic system dominated by government into a patient-centric, highly responsive, and energetic enterprise.
Forbes: The U.S. corporate tax code discourages medical innovation, said NCPA Senior Fellow John R. Graham in a Forbes commentary.
OC Register: In a commentary from the Orange County Register, NCPA Senior Fellow John Graham suggests that the way Medicaid funds are disbursed creates perverse political incentives to tax hikes and says the only way to fix it is fundamentally reforming Medicaid’s financing.
Forbes: NCPA Senior Fellow John Graham says the best way to lower prescription drugs prices is not to fight against the companies that research, develop, and manufacture them, as Trump is suggesting, but instead to reduce the regulatory burden of the Food and Drug Administration, in this commentary in Forbes.
Forbes: In a Forbes commentary, Senior Fellow John Graham says that the only way to curb out of control Medicare spending is to give patients more control of when and where they join the alternative payment options and let them benefit from the savings.
Eurasia Review: Senior Fellow John Graham explains the findings of a study that shows a ten percent waste in chemotherapeutic drug doses, what this means for cancer patients, and why FDA regulation is not the answer in this Eurasia Review commentary.
Forbes: In this Forbes commentary, NCPA Senior Fellow John Graham says the reason telemedicine is finding difficulty “busting out of the silo” is because of our over-reliance on third party payers and suggests the market would grow more effectively if patients controlled more health spending directly.
The Hill: In this commentary at The Hill, NCPA Senior Fellow John Graham outlines the ways the Republican majority in both the House and Senate have an opportunity to show that they can govern with fiscal prudence.
Forbes: In this Forbes commentary, NCPA Senior Fellow John Graham says that a viable alternative to Obamacare from Congressional Republicans could be on the horizon.
Real Clear Policy: Can Congress follow its tax cuts with spending cuts? We’ll have to wait until the next president takes office, says NCPA Senior Fellow John R. Graham in this Real Clear Policy commentary.
OC Register: NCPA Senior Fellow John R. Graham explains how Congress voted to add Obamacare to the pile of unfunded liabilities in an OC Register commentary.
The Orange County Register: California’s efforts to fight fraud in Medi-Cal is a more promising way to control costs than attacking the research-based pharmaceutical industry, says NCPA Senior Fellow John R. Graham in an Orange County Register commentary.
Forbes: According to a Forbes commentary by NCPA Senior Fellow John Graham, house calls could increase quality of care at low cost, if partnered with mobile health technology portfolio of cloud-enabled diagnostic, therapeutic, and decision-support tools to maximize efficiency.
Forbes: NCPA Senior Fellow John R. Graham discusses the advances in “telemedicine” and its future implications, but points out that doctors have been reluctant to give up traditional practices in favor of “connected care,” in a Forbes commentary.
RealClearPolicy: “Jeb Bush’s Medicare-reform plan embraces changes that will protect and improve the program for current and future beneficiaries,” says NCPA Senior Fellow John R. Graham in a RealClearPolicy commentary. “His plan is to create tax allocation transparency and remove government-set premium bench marks.”
Forbes: NCPA Senior Fellow John Graham dispels the main stream conclusion that the adoption of a “universal” health system would reduce the cost of U.S. health care in a Forbes commentary.
Washington Examiner: “Clinton’s solution to reducing high drug prices is to ban direct-to-consumer advertising, take away advertising tax deductions, and force drug companies to inefficiently manage funds,” says NCPA Senior Fellow John R. Graham in a Washington Examiner commentary. “She ignores the needless FDA red tape and the necessity to streamline the drug review and approval.”
The Orange County Register: NCPA Senior Fellow John Graham discusses the budget deficit and the high marginal income tax imposed by Medi-Cal, and builds a case for replacing them with a fixed dollar federal tax, in a commentary in The Orange County Register.