The conservative case for universal health care

Avik Roy’s work has won praise from both the right and the left; he has been called one of the nation’s “sharpest policy minds” by National Review and a man of “personal and moral courage” by Paul Krugman. He is the co-founder and president of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, a nonpartisan think tank based in Austin, Texas. He has written extensively about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. He is the policy editor at Forbes, and his work has been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, and numerous other publications. He has also published two books about health reform, and regularly appears on national news programs, including NBC’s Meet the Press and CBS’ Face the Nation. Roy has worked with three Republican Party presidential candidates: He was a health care policy advisor to Mitt Romney's 2012 campaign and was senior advisor to Rick Perry's 2016 campaign; he later joined the 2016 presidential campaign of Marco Rubio as a policy advisor.

Guian McKee is an associate professor in presidential studies at the Miller Center. He received a Ph.D. in American history at the University of California, Berkeley in May 2002, and he is the author of The Problem of Jobs: Liberalism, Race, and Deindustrialization in Philadelphia , published in November 2008 by the University of Chicago Press. At the Miller Center, McKee works extensively with the Presidential Recordings Program.