Dr. Bob's Healthcare Corner
Dr. Bob Graboyes (MSHA, PhD) is Senior Fellow for Health and Economics for the NFIB Research Foundation. He advises NFIB on healthcare policy and other issues. He was an economist at the University of Richmond (associate professor), the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond (regional analyst and economic education director), the Virginia Department of Taxation (revenue forecaster), and Chase Manhattan Bank (risk officer for Sub-Saharan Africa). Dr. Bob currently teaches healthcare professionals in master’s and doctoral programs at Virginia Commonwealth University, the University of Virginia, and George Mason University. He has visited the Republic of Kazakhstan to train that country’s healthcare officials.
NFIB Healthcare Bulletin (email blast)
Topics include:
- The small business health insurance tax (HIT)
- The Essential Health Benefits package
- Small businesses in waiver world
- How new “Medicare” taxes hit the middle class
- The fictitious “sales tax on home sales” and the real tax on wages and investments
- How the failure to control costs rendered the healthcare law politically toxic
- The Form 1099 “collation calamity” – a red-tape nightmare for business
- Grandfathering regulation – why you can’t keep the insurance you like
- How the healthcare law exposes employers to a “mystery tax”
- How the healthcare law exposes employees’ private finances to their employers
- The limited value of the small business health insurance tax credit
- How the healthcare law affects small business and big business differently
- The argument for health insurance exchanges
- Problems with Massachusetts’ healthcare reforms
- Why preventive medicine is a great idea but doesn’t save money
Health Care Rx (Washington Post blog, June 2009 – March 2010)
Topics include:
- How rising healthcare costs threaten small business
- How American healthcare stacks up against that in other countries
- How healthcare-related taxes aimed at the rich hit the not-so-rich and kill jobs
- Why malpractice matters
- How employer mandates primarily hit low-income employees
- The role of personal responsibility in producing good health
- The inefficiency of the small-group insurance market.
Other Writings
- Repeal and Replace blog, Altarum Institute (February 8, 2011)
- PPACA passage blog, Altarum Institute (April 27, 2010)
- Speech on job stagnation, Urban Institute (December 1, 2010)
- Speech, National Conference of State Legislatures (July 20, 2009)
- Speech, National Economists Club (June 23, 2009)
- Speech, American Benefits Council (May 28, 2009)
- Interview, Robb Mandelbaum, Inc.com (early 2008)
Slide Shows
Videos
Miscellaneous