An Introduction to 2025 and Beyond: Looming Health Policy Challenges

Lanhee J. Chen, PhD, is the David and Diane Steffy Fellow in American Public Policy Studies and cochair of the Healthcare Policy Working Group at the Hoover Institution. He is also a lecturer and the director of Domestic Policy Studies in the Public Policy Program at Stanford University. He has advised four presidential campaigns and served as a member of the Social Security Advisory Board and as a senior official at the US Department of Health and Human Services.

Tom Church is a policy fellow at the Hoover Institution whose work focuses on healthcare policy, entitlement reform, income inequality, poverty, and the federal budget. He holds a master’s degree in public policy with honors from Pepperdine University.

Daniel L. Heil is a policy fellow at the Hoover Institution whose work focuses on the federal budget, healthcare, tax policy, and antipoverty programs. Heil served as Florida governor Jeb Bush’s economic policy adviser, counseling him on these issues, during the 2016 presidential campaign. He holds a master’s degree in public policy from Pepperdine University.

Hoover’s Healthcare Policy Working Group develops and promotes innovative market-based health policy proposals that are capable of both reducing costs and expanding access to healthcare. The policy proposals include reforms to introduce competitive forces across the sector and improve consumer-directed healthcare. The working group collaborates with healthcare experts and other stakeholders to identify actionable policies that will improve America's healthcare system.