Robert Graboyes
The Hill
Alexandria, VA, United States
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Past articles by Robert:
Defusing the judicial confirmation process
2020’s elections have produced a fleeting opportunity to detoxify the confirmation process and handed both parties powerful motives to do so → Read More
How the 1920s Can Inform the 2020s in Health Care –
The 2020s have arrived. Science and technology are poised to revolutionize health care, spawning moral questions we can’t yet imagine. Such questions will → Read More
Beware the Public Option in Health Insurance –
Among Democrats, the “public option” may be rising in discussions as a less radical approach to health insurance than “Medicare for All” (M4A). Yet → Read More
Bad Bipartisan Ideas on Drug Prices –
Both sides of the aisle in American politics see lower drug prices in Canada and Europe and implore federal officials to force U.S. prices downward. STAT → Read More
Medical Bills — Big, Small and Compared to What? –
Some of the wisest words I ever heard came from Harvard economist Claudia Goldin. Her students often cited isolated numbers — “sixty-three MILLION → Read More
Obesity and the Limits of Design –
There’s much hand-wringing about obesity in medical and public policy circles. Most cures put forward are reminders of Friedrich von Hayek’s quote: “The → Read More
Enabling Telemedicine — Legal and Regulatory Challenges –
Telemedicine is a potential game-changer in health care. It offers patients immediate care wherever they are, at any minute of the day or night. For this → Read More
Top-down government efforts to corral drug prices will fail
Supply and demand resist even the strongest political forces. → Read More
O, Canada — the ‘Crisis’ of American Health Care Costs –
America spends more than any other country on health care — in the aggregate, per capita, or as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product. This, fretters → Read More
TeVido BioDevices and Treating Vitiligo –
TeVido BioDevices, a Texas-based biotech company, plans in 2019 to begin treating patients with vitiligo (vit-ih-LIE-go) — an illness in which the body’s → Read More
No Easy Answers to Drug Prices –
In 2018, the Kaiser Family Foundation reported near-unanimous support for giving the Department of Health and Human Services power to negotiate drug → Read More
Jalapenos, Drug Prices and Economic Logic –
Health care is intrinsically different from other economic sectors — the conventional wisdom goes — because in health care, competitive markets and → Read More
Toward Humility in Health Care –
Modesty is an essential ingredient of good medicine and good policy. I’ve taught the economics of health to hundreds of physicians, nurses, therapists, → Read More
A Salute for Lieutenant Graboyes –
Usually, I write about health care, but this Veterans Day, I’ll recall a few Army stories concerning my father, First Lieutenant Harold Graboyes. I’ll → Read More
Machine Learning to Improve Care –
To what extent can your doctor’s functions be automated — replaced or enhanced by intelligent machines? How might such automation improve care and reduce → Read More
As free innovation encounters health care regulation, think 'soft laws'
Free innovations, like the do-it-yourself artifical pancreas, present substantial regulatory challenges to the FDA and other agencies. → Read More
Medicare for All/Single-Payer FAQs –
Normally, my writing focuses on technological and structural innovation in health care — factors that can bring better health to more people at lower → Read More
Getting the Vapors Over Vaping –
To this lifelong non-smoker, using electronic cigarettes (“vaping”) seems like a desirable and effective tool for weaning nicotine addicts off the toxic cl → Read More
Maybe We’re Not in a Health Care Crisis? –
America’s health care debate revolves around two talking points, both of which lead the discussion down some nonproductive alleys. The first point is that → Read More
Amsterdam — the Economic City –
Amsterdam is a city that almost shouts “economics.” Except people in the Netherlands are far too pleasant and polite to shout. A recent trip to Amsterdam r → Read More