Hoover senior fellow Scott AtlasSo discusses the lasting legacy of Obamacare on Fox Business’s Lou Dobbs Tonight. Topics include choosing doctors and medical centers, continuity of care, primary-care shortages, and the backlash against Obamacare.

Hoover research fellow Lanhee Chen participated in the Bloomberg Business Summit on November 20 and 21, 2013.

Richard Epstein describes what the newest failures of Obamacare mean for the program's future.

Hoover senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson discusses problems with the Affordable Care Act on Garrison Radio. Topics include the health-care website, future issues for the government, Obama’s sagging popularity, and a comparison with other problematic events in Obama’s administration.

Richard Epstein analyzes the factors causing Obamacare's catastrophic failings.

Hoover senior fellow Richard A. Epstein discusses the rollout of the Affordable Care Act on the John Batchelor Show. Topics include the employer mandate, moral hazard and state exchanges, and high administrative costs.

On Monday, September 30, the White House announced that President Obama is nominating Hoover research fellow Lanhee J. Chen to be a member of the federal Social Security Advisory Board.

This week on Uncommon Knowledge, host Peter Robinson mediates a discussion between PayPal founder and Stanford Professor Peter Thiel and Velocity Capital Management founder and journalist Andy Kessler on the state of technology and innovation in the United States over the past four decades. Thiel argues that, outside of computers, there has been very little innovation in the past forty years, and the rate of technological change has significantly decreased when compared to the first half of the 20th century. In contrast, Kessler asserts that innovation comes in waves, and we are on the verge of another burst of technological breakthroughs. Industries covered include education, medicine and biotechnology, as well as robots and high tech.

Richard Epstein, the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a member of its Property Rights, Freedom, and Prosperity Task Force, points out the problems associated with implementing the Affordable Care Act.

In this podcast Russell Roberts, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and EconTalk host, discusses the Oregon Medicaid study and the challenges of interpreting experimental results with Jim Manzi, founder and chair of Applied Predictive Technologies and author of Uncontrolled.

This week on Uncommon Knowledge, Wisconsin governor Scott Walker discusses a wide range of issues facing his state, the nation, and the future of the GOP. (32:53)
“What we've tried to do is take a step back and instead of getting engrossed in the nuances and acronyms here in our nation's capital is instead try to focus on what does this mean to real people? What does this mean to our state? What does this mean to us long term? My goal is to move people from government dependence . . . and find a way to transition them into the private sector.”

Tammy Frisby, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, discusses whether the two parties are fairly or unfairly characterizing each other’s the health care proposals? What would happen to Obamacare if Romney is elected? How will these nuanced issues play out and affect the rest of the campaign?

US member of Congress and Republican vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan, representing Wisconsin’s First Congressional District, visited the Hoover Institution in 2011, to highlight the need to repeal and replace President Obama’s health care law. “We know that the first step toward real, bipartisan advances in health policy must start with a full repeal of the president’s partisan law,” Ryan said during remarks to Hoover Institution supporters.

Victor Davis Hanson, the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, weighs in on the president’s track record, focusing on the economy, taxes, and inequality. Hanson then addresses the Affordable Care Act.

David Davenport, counselor to the director and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, asks, on WWL’s Spud Show, whether yesterday's decision concerning the Affordable Care Act leaves any room for encouragement?

Charles Blahous, a Hoover research fellow who currently serves as one of the two public trustees for the Social Security and Medicare Programs, discusses his recent study, which reveals that the president's national health care law adds $340 billion to the deficit.

Scott W. Atlas, MD, is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a professor of radiology and chief of neuroradiology at the Stanford University Medical Center, and senior fellow by courtesy at the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford. He delivered a talk titled “Health Care Reform: Setting the Record Straight on America’s Health Care” on Tuesday, November 8, 2011, at the University Auditorium in Palo Alto as part of the Martin and Illie Anderson Lecture series.

Congressman Paul Ryan discusses, with Hoover research fellow Peter Robinson, the importance of repealing Obamacare.

R. Glenn Hubbard, a member of Hoover’s Working Group on Health Care Policy and the dean of Columbia University Business School, where he is also the Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics, discusses the economy, health care, and “too big to fail” on Fox Business News.

David Davenport, counselor to the director and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, notes that, with the House repeal of Obamacare and 27 states challenging its constitutionality in the courts, perhaps it’s time to say what we need instead. The answer, which several of us have suggested from the beginning, is targeted fixes, not a federal overhaul.

Richard Epstein is a professor of law at the New York University law school, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago law school. His latest book is The Case Against the Employee Free Choice Act. John Yoo is a professor at the University of California at Berkeley law school. His most recent book is Crisis and Command.

Richard Epstein, the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, member of Hoover's Property Rights, Freedom, and Prosperity Task Force, the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at New York University, and the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, will debate Pamela Karlan, a Stanford Law School professor, on Tuesday, January 11, 2011.

Richard Epstein, the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at New York University and the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago. Epstein and Paul Howard discuss the question of constitutionality in Obamacare’s individual mandate and the ruling by a Virginia district judge.

David Davenport, counselor to the director and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, notes that, despite its passage earlier this year, health care reform is far from over. Two of three federal judges who have looked at it say there are serious constitutional questions. Three states have it on the ballot. Republicans say they will try to stop funding and enabling legislation, and talk of repeal is growing.

In Reforming America’s Health Care System, health policy experts from the United States, Canada, and Western Europe discuss both what to expect from the recent health reform legislation and that alternatives should still be considered. They offer critical appraisals of numerous aspects of the new law, looking at the individual mandate to buy insurance, the threat to medical innovation, the reduction of choice to consumers, and the complexities of medical malpractice reform. In addition they examine lessons learned from state health reforms, the Canadian government’s control of access to care, and the Western European government’s oversight of comparative effectiveness.

Tammy Frisby is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. She also teaches in Stanford University’s political science department and in the university's public policy program. She delivered a talk at a seminar titled “Obamacare after the November Elections” on Tuesday, September 14. The seminar, which took place at the University Auditorium of the Classic Residence by Hyatt, is part of the Martin and Illie Anderson Lecture series.

Mark Pauly, a member of Hoover’s Working Group on Health Care Policy, met with members of the Congressional Health Care Caucus to discuss how the individual private health insurance market can work to provide quality, affordable, health care insurance for Americans. Pauly also discussed his book Health Reform without Side Effects: Making Markets Work for Individual Health Insurance and participated in a lively question-and-answer session on health reform with caucus members.

On Wednesday, March 10, Scott Atlas hosted a forum with Stanford University students to discuss health care policy and the current health care debate in Congress. (45:24)

Richard A. Epstein, the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, discusses the pro, cons, and legal issues of health care reform in a lecture at Columbia Law School.

David Brady, the deputy director and Davies Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, gave a presentation titled “Why Health Care Is So Hard to Reform” on September 8 at the Hyatt in Palo Alto.

The United States leads the developed world in spending on health care, at nearly 15 percent of our GDP. But based on measures such as life expectancy at birth, Americans receive a lower level of care than do the citizens of many countries that spend less. What's wrong with health care in America? And how should we fix it? Peter Robinson speaks with John F. Cogan and Alain Enthoven.

The United States leads the developed world in spending on health care, at nearly 15 percent of our GDP. But based on measures such as life expectancy at birth, Americans receive a lower level of care than do the citizens of many countries that spend less. What's wrong with health care in America? And how should we fix it? Peter Robinson speaks with John F. Cogan and Alain Enthoven.