DATE AND TIME
Monday, January 5, 2026 -
Wednesday, January 7, 2026
500 East 4th Street
Austin, TX
Policy Forum
State Health Policy Summit 2026
Resources
Books
Recovery: A Guide to Reforming the U.S. Health Sector – Michael F. Cannon
Your Body, Your Health Care – Jeffrey A. Singer
Overcharged: Why Americans Pay Too Much for Health Care – Charles Silver & David A. Hyman
Medicare Meets Mephistopheles – David A. Hyman
Medical Malpractice Litigation – Bernard S. Black, David A. Hyman, William Sage, and Charles Silver
Economics in One Virus – Ryan Bourne
Policy Analyses & Papers
Universal, Permanent Health Insurance Relief – Michael F. Cannon
End the Tax Exclusion for Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance – Michael F. Cannon
Drug Reformation: End the Government’s Power to Require Prescriptions – Jeffrey A. Singer and Michael F. Cannon
Better Long-Term Care for Billions Less – Steven A. Moses
Cops Practicing Medicine – Jeffrey A. Singer and Trevor Burrus
Let Pharmacists Prescribe – Marc Joffe and Jeffrey A. Singer
Licensing Requirements Would Block Care and Justice for Sexual Assault Victims – Jeffrey A. Singer, Akiva Malamet, Spencer Pratt, and Michael F. Cannon
Expand Access to Methadone Treatment – Jeffrey A. Singer and Sofia Hamilton
Licensing Would Reduce Access to Lactation Support Services – Jeffrey A. Singer and Sofia Hamilton
Expand Access to Primary Care: Remove Barriers to Assistant Physicians – Jeffrey A. Singer and Spencer Pratt
Commentary & Essays
U.S. Health Care: The Free-Market Myth (essay) – Michael F. Cannon
Man Admits to Medicaid Fraud - That’s Not the Worst Part (essay) – Michael F. Cannon
An Open Letter to the Thompson Boys (essay) – Michael F. Cannon
How Trump Lowered Medical Premiums and Expanded Choice – Michael F. Cannon
What’s the Key to Universal Health Care? – Michael F. Cannon
AI and Health Care: A Policy Framework for Innovation, Liability, and Patient Autonomy – Part 1 – Jeffrey A. Singer
Introducing A New Blog Series on AI and Health Care Policy – Jeffrey A. Singer and Jennifer Huddleston
To Relieve the Physician Bottleneck, Governments Should Broaden Medical Residency Accreditation Options (testimony) – Jeffrey A. Singer
More States Move to Let Experienced Foreign Doctors Serve Their Patients – Jeffrey A. Singer
Government Should Experiment with Eliminating Patient Barriers, Not with Covering Ozempic – Akiva Malamet, Bautista Vivanco, and Michael F. Cannon
Trusted Abroad, Blocked at Home: Why Americans Need a Passport for Proven Medicines – Jeffrey A. Singer and Bautista Vivanco
Premade Conclusions, Post-Hoc Data: The Problem with the MAHA Report – Jeffrey A. Singer, Terence Kealey, and Bautista Vivanco
Visual Features
A Hippocratic Oath for a Free Society – Jeffrey A. Singer
The Original Sin of U.S. Health Policy – Michael F. Cannon
Program
State Health Policy Summit 2026, Austin, TX