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Michael F. Cannon is the Cato Institute's director of health policy studies. Previously, he served as a domestic policy analyst for the U.S. Senate Republican Policy Committee under Chairman Larry E. Craig, where he advised the Senate leadership on health, education, labor, welfare, and the Second Amendment. Cannon has appeared on ABC, CBS, CNN, CNBC, C-SPAN, Fox News Channel, and NPR. His articles have been featured in USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, Forum for Health Economics & Policy, and the Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics. Cannon is coauthor of Healthy Competition: What’s Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It. He holds a bachelor's degree in American government (B.A.) from the University of Virginia, and master’s degrees in economics (M.A.) and law & economics (J.M.) from George Mason University.

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Books and Book Chapters

"Health Care: The Revolution's Mitigated Disaster," Ch. 10, The Republican Revolution 10 Years Later: Smaller Government or Business as Usual? edited by Chris Edwards and John Samples (2005).

Healthy Competition: What's Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It, by Michael F. Cannon and Michael D. Tanner (2005).

Cato Studies

"Does Barack Obama Support Socialized Medicine?," Briefing Paper no. 108, October 7, 2008.

"Sinking SCHIP: A First Step toward Stopping the Growth of Government Health Programs," Briefing Paper no. 99, September 13, 2007.

"Health Savings Accounts: Do the Critics Have a Point?," Policy Analysis no. 569, May 30, 2006.

"Medicaid’s Unseen Costs," Policy Analysis no. 548, August 18, 2005.

"Mrs. Clinton Has Entered the Race: The 2004 Democratic Presidential Candidates' Proposals to Reform Health Insurance," Policy Analysis no. 509, February 5, 2004.

Articles and Newsletters

"Health Care,” in Ronald Hamowy (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism, SAGE Publications, Inc.: Thousand Oaks, California, 2008. Reprinted courtesy of SAGE Publications, Inc., and the Cato Institute. Copyright 2008. All rights reserved.

"Large Health Savings Accounts: A Step toward Tax Neutrality for Health Care," Forum for Health Economics & Policy, Vol. 11, issue 2 (Health Care Reform), Article 3 (2008).

"Bill Gates Doesn't Need Any Help from Younger Workers," in Should Medicare Be Means-Tested? A Symposium, Center of the American Experiment, May 2007, pp. 11-12.

"Pay-for-Performance: Is Medicare a Good Candidate?," Yale J. Health P. Law & Ethics, Vol. 7, issue 1: Winter 2007.

"Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: Five Steps to a Better Health Care System," Book Review, Cato Journal, vol. 26, no. 2, Spring/Summer 2006.

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