Merrill Matthews, Ph.D., is a resident scholar with the Institute for Policy Innovation, a research-based, public policy “think tank.” He is a health policy expert and weekly contributor at Forbes.co...

Kerby Anderson is host of Point of View Radio Talk Show and also serves as the President of Probe Ministries. He holds masters degrees from Yale University (science) and Georgetown University (govern...

Joel is the Founder and President of Horizon Government Affairs, a health care consultancy that represents several dozen clients and runs four coalitions comprised of 200 organizations dedicated to re...

Joel is the Founder and President of Horizon Government Affairs, a health care consultancy that represents several dozen clients and runs four coalitions comprised of 200 organizations dedicated to reforms that improve our health system. Since Horizon’s founding in 2007, his team has helped enact more than 50 laws and helped shape countless regulations governing all aspects of the U.S. health care system. Previously, Joel spent twelve years on Capitol Hill including as Staff Director of the Ways and Means Health Subcommittee. While on the Hill he helped enact nine laws, including the 2002 Trade Act, which created health care tax credits for private coverage, and the 2003 law that established the Medicare prescription drug benefit and created Health Savings Accounts. He also helped enact the 2005 Deficit Reduction Act and the 2006 Tax Reform and Health Care Act, which reformed Medicare payment policies. Joel is dedicated to community service that helps the poor and those with mental illness. He is on the Board of Directors of Samaritan Inns, one of the largest private homeless and treatment centers in DC. He runs Arlington Bridge Builders, which develops and operates anti-poverty strategies in VA. He is also on the boards of the Schizophrenia and Psychosis Action Alliance, SafeNetRx, and Chaddock Behavioral Health.

J.P. Wieske joined Horizon Government Affairs as Vice President of State Affairs in January 2019. He was previously the Deputy Insurance Commissioner for the State of Wisconsin where he supervised the...

J.P. Wieske joined Horizon Government Affairs as Vice President of State Affairs in January 2019. He was previously the Deputy Insurance Commissioner for the State of Wisconsin where he supervised the regulatory, public information and administrative functions of the Office of the Commissioner of Insurance. Wieske also served on Governor Scott Walker’s Opioid Task Force and served as an active member of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, where he chaired various subgroups including the Regulatory Framework Task Force and the Health Care Reform Alternatives Working Group. As Vice President of State Affairs, Wieske leads HGA’s continued expansion into state policy, enhancing clients’ access to state regulators, legislators, and executives while leveraging his more than 25 years of industry experience to drive smarter state policy reforms.

David R. Henderson is an Emeritus Professor of Economics at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California and a Research Fellow with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He was previ...

David R. Henderson is an Emeritus Professor of Economics at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California and a Research Fellow with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He was previously a senior economist with President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers. He has written 3 books (2 of which were co-authored) and edited 2 books. His edited volume, The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics, was the first, and still the only, reader-friendly encyclopedia of economics. David blogs on economic policy at a Substack titled “I Blog to Differ” and at Econlib.org. He has written over 400 articles for the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Barron's, Fortune, the Washington Post, USA Today, Reason, the Red Herring, the Chicago Tribune, and other popular publications. He has also appeared on C-SPAN, CNN, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, NPR, CBC, and the BBC, and has testified before committees of the U.S. Congress.

John Fund is National Affairs Columnist for National Review magazine and a contributor to Fox News He is an often-quoted expert on American politics and the interconnections between politics, economi...

John Fund is National Affairs Columnist for National Review magazine and a contributor to Fox News He is an often-quoted expert on American politics and the interconnections between politics, economics and legal issues. He previously served as a columnist and editorial board member for The Wall Street Journal. for 27 years. He covered the collapse of Communism while at the Wall Street Journal Europe and has reported from over 20 countries. He is the author of several books, including Obama's Enforcer: Eric Holder's Justice Department (HarperCollins, 2014), Who's Counting: Bow Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote At Risk (Encounter Books, 2012); and The Dangers of Regulation Through Litigation (ATRA Press, 2008). He worked as a research analyst for the California Legislature in Sacramento before beginning his journalism career as a reporter for the syndicated columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak. Roll Call, the newspaper of Capitol Hill, called him "the Tom Paine of the modern Congressional reform movement." He has won awards from the Institute for Justice, The Competitive Enterprise Institute and The Fund for American Studies.