DATE AND TIME
Monday, January 5, 2026 -
Wednesday, January 7, 2026

LOCATION
Hilton Austin
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