Robert F. Graboyes is an economist, journalist, and musician at RFG Counterpoint, LLC, in

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. Author of ''Fortress and Frontier in American Health Care'' and publisher of the newsletter ''Bastiat's Window'', he writes on the technology and politicization of healthcare. He has taught

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, and received the Reason Foundation's Bastiat Prize for Journalism in 2014.

Education and teaching

Graboyes earned his PhD in economics from

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. He also earned master's degrees from Columbia University,

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, and the

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, as well as a bachelor's degree from the

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. He taught full-time at the

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and, over a 20-year period, also taught part-time at Virginia Commonwealth University, the

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, and

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References

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