"Choked Up: Why We Didn't Swallow President Obama's Two-Thousand Page Prescription for Health Reform."

John R. Graham is Director of Health Care Studies at the Pacific Research Institute. He is the author of the U.S. Index of Health Ownership, the only project to rank all 50 states’ health laws and regulations according to free-market principles; and the editor of a book addressing What States Can Do to Reform Health Care: A Free Market Primer.

He is also the primary author of the monthly Health Policy Prescriptions series, which addresses national health reform, and contributes to PRI's Capital Ideas series of short articles on public policy in California. He has written articles about health policy for periodicals including the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. He writes almost daily for a number of blogs, which are aggregated at Free American Health Care. His Twitter handle is johnrgraham.

Skilled at turning health-policy wonkery into a persuasive case for individual choice and limited government power over peoples' access to medical care, Mr. Graham speaks frequently on health care reform on radio and television, and at meetings in the United States, Canada, and Europe.

He has also worked as a management consultant and investment banker in Canada and Europe and has previously served as an infantry officer in the Canadian Army in Canada, Germany, and Cyprus. He received his M.B.A. from the London Business School (England) and his B.A. (with Honors) in economics and commerce from the Royal Military College of Canada.