Michael F. Cannon, MA, JM Biography
- Title:
- Director of Health Policy Studies at the Cato Institute
- Position:
- Con to the question "Is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) Good for America?"
- Reasoning:
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“The price controls that Obama’s law imposes on pharmaceuticals and health insurance will prevent the market from expressing a demand for further innovations.
Massachusetts enacted a nearly identical law in 2006, which is already threatening to extinguish innovation in payment systems and healthcare delivery.President Obama could have come up with a law making healthcare better, more affordable and more secure through the bottom-up process of innovation. Instead, he extended the world’s most expensive health care system to 32 million more people. And he did so in a way that could ‘dump’ more sick Americans than ever before.
That makes ObamaCare an attractive target for repeal.”
“US Healthcare: What Hath Obama Wrought?” Diplomat Magazine, May 2010
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute
- Former domestic policy analyst, US Senate Republican Policy Committee
- Education:
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- JM (Juris Master), Law and Economics, George Mason University
- MA, Economics, George Mason University
- BA, American Government, University of Virginia
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