Robert Graboyes
- Former Senior Research Fellow
Dr. Robert Graboyes was a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center from 2013-2022. Author of “Fortress and Frontier in American Health Care,” his work asks, “How can we make health care as innovative in the next 25 years as information technology was in the past 25?”
Previously, he was health care advisor for the National Federation of Independent Business, economics professor at the University of Richmond, regional economist/director of education at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, and Sub-Saharan Africa economist for Chase Manhattan Bank. His work has taken him to Europe, Africa, and Central Asia. An award-winning teacher, he has also taught health economics in graduate programs at Virginia Commonwealth University, the University of Virginia, George Mason University, and the George Washington University.
His degrees include a PhD in Economics from Columbia University; master’s from Columbia University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and the College of William and Mary; and a bachelor’s from the University of Virginia. He has chaired the National Economists Club, Richmond Association for Business Economics, and National Association for Business Economics Healthcare Roundtable.
He won the Reason Foundation’s 2014 Bastiat Prize for Journalism, an international competition for “writing that best demonstrates the importance of individual liberty and free markets with originality, wit, and eloquence.”
Latest Work
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Planepooling and Air Taxis for Post-COVID Aviation
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Fortress and Frontier: Healthcare Policymakers Should Worship Change, Not Stasis | Discourse
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How AI Can Make Medicine Fleet as a Fox | InsideSources
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The Machine Starts: Ideology of the Timid | InsideSources
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Fortress and Frontier: The Disruptive Innovator | Discourse
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Congress Ponders a Massive, Partisan, Redundant Healthcare Bill
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Conservatives and Public Health: A Warm Welcome Into a Cold Climate | Discourse
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Radio Appearance Radio Appearance
For Greater Healthcare Access, License Physicians Like Pilots | John Batchelor Radio Show
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- | Policy Briefs Policy Briefs
For Greater Healthcare Access, License Physicians Like Pilots
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- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
The Public Option Is Nothing New
Latest Work
- | Regulation Regulation
- | Working Papers Working Papers
Planepooling and Air Taxis for Post-COVID Aviation
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Fortress and Frontier: Healthcare Policymakers Should Worship Change, Not Stasis | Discourse
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
How AI Can Make Medicine Fleet as a Fox | InsideSources
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
The Machine Starts: Ideology of the Timid | InsideSources
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Fortress and Frontier: The Disruptive Innovator | Discourse
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Congress Ponders a Massive, Partisan, Redundant Healthcare Bill
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Conservatives and Public Health: A Warm Welcome Into a Cold Climate | Discourse
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Radio Appearance Radio Appearance
For Greater Healthcare Access, License Physicians Like Pilots | John Batchelor Radio Show
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Policy Briefs Policy Briefs
For Greater Healthcare Access, License Physicians Like Pilots
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
The Public Option Is Nothing New
Latest Work
- | Healthcare Openness and Access Project 2020: Full Release Healthcare Openness and Access Project 2020: Full Release
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Research Papers Research Papers
Indiana | #16 | Healthcare Openness and Access Rankings (2020)
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- | Healthcare Healthcare
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Kansas | #37 | Healthcare Openness and Access Rankings (2020)
- | Healthcare Openness and Access Project 2020: Full Release Healthcare Openness and Access Project 2020: Full Release
- | Healthcare Healthcare
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Kentucky | #44 | Healthcare Openness and Access Rankings (2020)
- | Healthcare Openness and Access Project 2020: Full Release Healthcare Openness and Access Project 2020: Full Release
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Louisiana | #30 | Healthcare Openness and Access Rankings (2020)
- | Healthcare Openness and Access Project 2020: Full Release Healthcare Openness and Access Project 2020: Full Release
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Massachusetts | #50 | Healthcare Openness and Access Rankings (2020)
- | Healthcare Openness and Access Project 2020: Full Release Healthcare Openness and Access Project 2020: Full Release
- | Healthcare Healthcare
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Maryland | #26 | Healthcare Openness and Access Rankings (2020)
- | Healthcare Openness and Access Project 2020: Full Release Healthcare Openness and Access Project 2020: Full Release
- | Healthcare Healthcare
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Maine | #18 | Healthcare Openness and Access Rankings (2020)
- | Healthcare Openness and Access Project 2020: Full Release Healthcare Openness and Access Project 2020: Full Release
- | Healthcare Healthcare
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Michigan | #12 | Healthcare Openness and Access Rankings (2020)
- | Healthcare Openness and Access Project 2020: Full Release Healthcare Openness and Access Project 2020: Full Release
- | Healthcare Healthcare
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Minnesota | #34 | Healthcare Openness and Access Rankings (2020)
- | Healthcare Openness and Access Project 2020: Full Release Healthcare Openness and Access Project 2020: Full Release
- | Healthcare Healthcare
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Missouri | #20 | Healthcare Openness and Access Rankings (2020)
Latest Work
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From Fortress to Frontier: How Innovation Can Save Health Care
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- | Healthcare Healthcare
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Conservatives and Public Health: A Warm Welcome Into a Cold Climate | Discourse
- | Healthcare Healthcare
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The Public Option Is Nothing New
- | Healthcare Healthcare
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Fortress and Frontier: Price Transparency in Healthcare
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Can an App Comfort the Sick?
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What Aviation Can Teach Healthcare
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Trying To Determine Which Country Has the Best Healthcare System Is Worse Than a Waste of Time | Discourse
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Knowing Without Meeting in the Internet Era
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Thoughts at the Waning of COVID
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Adam Smith Versus Bamboo and Cicadas
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