Government & Politics
Where Politics Meets Policy: Health Care and the 2026 Midterm Elections
Ideas Uncorked: Where Politics Meets Policy, Health Care and the 2026 Midterm Elections
featuring
Lanhee Chen, David and Diane Steffy Fellow in American Public Policy Studies, Hoover Institution
Daniel Heil, Policy Fellow, Hoover Institution
Tom Church, Policy Fellow, Hoover Institution
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Join The Hoover Institution in DC for the next session in the Ideas Uncorked monthly happy hour series that brings together preeminent scholars from the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and the best from California Wine Country.
This is an in-person only series at the Hoover Institution's Washington, DC office.
Lanhee Chen is the David and Diane Steffy Fellow in American Public Policy Studies at the Hoover Institution and cochair of its Healthcare Policy Working Group, At Stanford University, he is also director of Domestic Policy Studies, lecturer in the Public Policy Program, and an affiliated faculty member of the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Daniel Heil is a policy fellow at the Hoover Institution whose focus is on the federal budget, tax policy, and the federal antipoverty programs.
Heil’s interests include replacing failed policies with state and federal initiatives that alleviate poverty by encouraging workforce participation and human capital development. He has also written on the perils of telecommunication regulations and the economic effects of e-business.
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.
