Robert F. Graboyes, Ph.D.

Guest Contributor:

Senior Fellow for Health and Economics, National Federation of Independent Business Research Foundation

Robert F. Graboyes, Ph.D., is Senior Fellow for Health and Economics at the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) Research Foundation. Dr. Graboyes also teaches health economics in master’s and doctoral programs at Virginia Commonwealth University, the University of Virginia, and George Mason University. Previously, as Chase Manhattan Bank’s economist for sub-Saharan Africa, he traveled extensively in Africa and Europe. He was an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. Twice, he visited Central Asia to teach health economics to public health officials in the Republic of Kazakhstan. For two years, Dr. Graboyes chaired the Health Economics Roundtable for the National Association for Business Economics. He has a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University, master’s degrees from the College of William and Mary, Columbia University, and Virginia Commonwealth University, and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia.

The Day After: Health Care Reform After NFIB v Sebelius

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Topics:

Health Reform

The long process of health care reform will begin the day after the U.S. Supreme Court rules in the case of NFIB v Sebelius.

Health Care Law Blues: They Hear That Train a-Comin’

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Topics:

Health Policy

Health Reform

For small business, the 2010 health reform law means higher costs, more red-tape and fewer choices.

Cashews on the Hindenburg

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Topics:

Costs & Economic Analysis

Health Reform

Insurance

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) has a thousand pages of moving parts, and the relatively few that have rolled out are shedding sprockets across the landscape.

Small Business and Exchanges: SHOP Till You Drop

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Topics:

Costs & Economic Analysis

Health Reform

Assuming the 2010 health care law survives through 2014, one of the big questions is the future of small-group insurance plans – those in which the employer chooses and administers a plan or plans for employees. The health insurance exchanges built into the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) create mechanisms for small-group survival, but also powerful incentives for their dissolution.

Health Care Law Subsidies: A Tale of Two Cities

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Topics:

Costs & Economic Analysis

Health Reform

The 2010 health care law will conjure up a strange brew of inequities as it comes to a boil in 2014. The mechanistic, one-size-fits-all health insurance subsidies, for example, will generate serious questions about the law’s fairness.

PPACA and the Jobless Recovery

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Topics:

Costs & Economic Analysis

Health Reform

Small-business owners are deeply concerned that the 2010 health care law (PPACA) will prolong what has been described as America’s “jobless recovery.”

HIT Hit: (PPACA’s Health Insurance Tax)

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Topics:

Health Reform

Insurance

The 2010 health care law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), hits small business with a barrage of inequities. Among the most egregious is the health insurance tax (HIT) launched by the law’s Section 9010.

Essential Health Benefits: The Secretary’s Joystick

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Topics:

Health Reform

Insurance

Beginning in 2014, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) hands the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services a joystick – the Essential Health Benefits package – with the potential to rocket small-business health insurance premiums skyward.

Small Business Health Care Wish List: Repeal and Replace

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Topics:

Costs & Economic Analysis

Health Reform

To start a real dialogue that leads to real reform, here’s the small business position: The past was awful, the present lies somewhere between no-better and much-worse, and the future can be bright if sensible replace follows blessed repeal.

Health Reform - New Burdens for Small Business

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Topics:

Costs & Economic Analysis

Health Policy

Health Reform

Health care reform is now the law of the land, and the rollout has begun. If the law stands without major revision, only time will tell how it ultimately affects health care costs, coverage, and quality. Like everyone else, I have my own thoughts, but opinion and forecast must give way to reality.