Tom Church

About

Tom Church is a policy fellow at the Hoover Institution. He studies health care policy, entitlement reform, income inequality, poverty, and the federal budget.

Church’s research interests include tax-advantaged savings accounts for health care, the fiscal effects of a federal public option, state-based regulatory reform, pro-growth federal tax policy, and the distributional effects of entitlement spending reform.

He has researched the fiscal effects of major health care proposals and is a co-author of Choices for All, a set of common-sense health care reforms. He contributes to Hoover’s Healthcare Policy Working Group, the Fiscal Policy Initiative, and the Tennenbaum Program for Fact-Based Policy.

Church received his master’s degree in public policy with honors from Pepperdine University, specializing in economics and international relations. He has a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and political science from the University of Michigan.