Transcending Obamacare: A Patient-Centered Plan for Near-Universal Coverage and Permanent Fiscal Solvency

Friday, May 8, 2015
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
(Pacific)
Speaker: 
  • Avik Roy

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Avik Roy

Avik Roy is a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and the Opinion Editor at Forbes. His research interests include the Affordable Care Act, universal coverage, entitlement reform, international health systems, veterans' health care, and FDA policy. In 2012, Roy served as a health care policy adviser to Mitt Romney. He is the author of Transcending Obamacare: A Patient-Centered Plan for Near-Universal Coverage and Permanent Fiscal Solvency and How Medicaid Fails the Poor, published by Encounter Books in 2013.In addition, Roy writes regularly for National Review Online on politics and policy. He is a frequent guest on television news programs, including appearances on Fox News, Fox Business, NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, Bloomberg, PBS, CBS, and HBO. His work has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, USA Today, Health Affairs, and National Affairs, among other publications. Roy is a member of the Advisory Board of the National Institute for Health Care Management, and co-chairs the Fixing Vertans Health Care Policy Taskforce. At the Manhattan Institute,  Roy is the founder of Roy Healthcare Research, an investment research firm in New York. Previously, he served as an analyst and portfolio manager at Bain Capital, J.P. Morgan, and other firms.