Robert Graboyes
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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.”
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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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Why American Health Care is Broken and How to Fix It | The Forgotten America Podcast
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Knowing Without Meeting in the Internet Era
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Fortress and Frontier: Healthcare’s Reluctant Revolution
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Thoughts at the Waning of COVID
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Adam Smith Versus Bamboo and Cicadas
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Fortress and Frontier: Price Transparency in Healthcare
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Can an App Comfort the Sick?
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
What Aviation Can Teach Healthcare
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Trying To Determine Which Country Has the Best Healthcare System Is Worse Than a Waste of Time | Discourse
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Podcast Appearance Podcast Appearance
Why American Health Care is Broken and How to Fix It | The Forgotten America Podcast
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Knowing Without Meeting in the Internet Era
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Mercatus Original Podcasts Mercatus Original Podcasts
- | Discourse Magazine Podcast Discourse Magazine Podcast
Fortress and Frontier: Healthcare’s Reluctant Revolution
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Thoughts at the Waning of COVID
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Adam Smith Versus Bamboo and Cicadas
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Mississippi | #24 | Healthcare Openness and Access Rankings (2020)
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Montana | #7 | Healthcare Openness and Access Rankings (2020)
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North Carolina | #46 | Healthcare Openness and Access Rankings (2020)
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North Dakota | #8 | Healthcare Openness and Access Rankings (2020)
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Nebraska | #9 | Healthcare Openness and Access Rankings (2020)
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New Hampshire | #32 | Healthcare Openness and Access Rankings (2020)
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New Jersey | #51 | Healthcare Openness and Access Rankings (2020)
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New Mexico | #21 | Healthcare Openness and Access Rankings (2020)
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Nevada | #15 | Healthcare Openness and Access Rankings (2020)
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New York | #49 | Healthcare Openness and Access Rankings (2020)
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What is Virtual Health?: The Promise of Technology and the Chaos of Terminology
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Telehealth and the Asynchronous Revolution
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Toward Greater Access to Health Care in Maine
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What Uber Can Teach Healthcare
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The Future of Telehealth: Bright, but Hazy
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Healthcare Prices: When Transparency Means Trouble
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On Telemedicine in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Staying in Business through Reinvention and Resilience
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