Avik Roy, "The Future of Health Care Law and Policy"

With commentary by Professor Anup Malani

Avik Roy was named a policy advisor for health care policy at The Heartland Institute in 2011. In 2012, Roy served as a health care policy adviser to Mitt Romney. He is editor and principal author of The Apothecary, the influential Forbes blog on health care policy and entitlement reform. In addition, Roy writes a weekly column for National Review Online on politics and policy. He is a frequent guest on Fox News, Fox Business, MSNBC, CNBC, and HBO. His work has also appeared in The Atlantic, USA Today, National Affairs, and The American Spectator, among other publications. Roy's research interests include the Affordable Care Act, universal coverage, entitlement reform, international health systems, and FDA policy. 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. Roy attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he studied molecular biology, and the Yale University School of Medicine.

Professor Malani is the Lee and Brena Freeman Professor at the University of Chicago Law School and Professor at the Pritzker School of Medicine. He is also a university scholar at Resources for the Future in Washington, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Boston, a senior Fellow at the Schaeffer Center at University of Southern California, an editor at the Journal of Law and Economics, and on the board of the University of Chicago Press. Malani has a PhD in economics and a JD, both from University of Chicago. He clerked for Judge Stephen Williams on the U.S. Court of Appeals for District of Columbia and Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court. Malani conducts research in law and economics and health economics. His health economics research focuses on the value of medical innovation and insurance, control of infectious diseases, and placebo effects. He is the principal investigator on the Indian Health Insurance Experiment, a 12,000 household study of health insurance in Karnataka, India.   Malani teaches courses in commercial law and health law in the Law School and a PhD law and economics course in the Economics Department. 

Presented on January 27, 2016, by the Federalist Society.