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Friday, November 20, 2009
 
 
SCHOLARS & FELLOWS
 
Thomas P. Miller
Resident Fellow
 
 
RESOURCES
 
 
RESEARCH AREAS
 
  • Information transparency for health services
  • Health insurance regulation (interstate competition)
  • Consumer-driven health care
Contact E-mail: tmiller@aei.org Phone: 202-862-5886 Fax: 202-862-7177 Assistant: Rohit Parulkar Assistant E-mail: rohit.parulkar@aei.org Assistant Phone: 202-862-5920   Biography
 
Thomas Miller is a former senior health economist for the Joint Economic Committee. He studies health care policy and regulation. A lawyer by training and a former journalist, Mr. Miller has worked on issues ranging from Medicare prescription drug benefits to medical savings accounts. While at the committee, he worked on social security reform legislation and organized a number of hearings that focused on reforms in private health care markets.
 
Experience
  • Member, National Advisory Council, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2007-present 
  • Senior Health Economist, Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Congress, 2003-2006
  • Director, Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute, 2000-2003
  • Program Director, Economic Policy Studies, 1993-2000; Senior Policy Analyst, 1986-92, Competitive Enterprise Institute
  • Journalist, 1977-86
  • Attorney, Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy, 1975-77
 
Education
 
J.D., Duke University Law School
B.A., political science, New York University
 
Print All Scholar Works
Articles and Commentary [List all]

We need targeted reforms, not a federal takeover, to fix the insurance system.

Although this year's initial version of comprehensive health reform was too much, too fast, and not put together in a way that was sustainable, it must wait for reconsideration until next year.

Reversing decades of overregulation, mistargeted tax subsidies, and lack of transparency in the health care sector would not solve all problems, but it surely would help reduce them.

 
Books Uncle Sam, M.D.

This collection of essays provides an indication of the range and depth of AEI’s work in health care reform and pharmaceutical policy.

 
Events [List all] Private Health Insurance Markets: Facts, Fables, and Fixes

What are the scope and scale of problems in private insurance markets? Are private insurers angels or demons? This AEI event will discuss what is fact and what is fiction in this year's health reform debate and outline key reforms for the industry.

September 15 Health Care Conference Call

Conference Call: Health Care Reform

On July 22, AEI's health policy scholars provided analysis and answered questions on health care reform during a conference call.

 
 
Speeches and Testimony Health Care Reform on the Hill: Where We've Been and Where We're Going

Although this year's initial version of comprehensive health reform was too much, too fast, and not put together in a way that was sustainable, it must wait for reconsideration until next year.

How What We Think We Know about the Uninsured Really Adds Up

Reversing decades of overregulation, mistargeted tax subsidies, and lack of transparency in the health care sector would not solve all problems, but it surely would help reduce them.

The Last Detail(s)

Is there really a better way to reform our health care system?