Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
Thomas Miller is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he studies health care policy, including regulatory barriers to choice and competition, market-based alternatives to the Affordable Care Act, health care litigation, and the political economy of health care reform.
A former senior health economist for the Joint Economic Committee in Congress, Mr. Miller was previously a trial attorney, journalist, and sports broadcaster.
Mr. Miller is the coauthor of the bestseller “Why Obamacare Is Wrong for America” (HarperCollins, 2011), the first in-depth examination of the impact of the Affordable Care Act. His analyses and commentary have been published and featured widely in peer-reviewed publications and in the popular press, including Cato Journal, Health Affairs, Law and Contemporary Problems, the Journal of Law, Medicine, and Politics, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.
Mr. Miller has also testified before Congress on the uninsured, health care costs, Medicare cost sharing, high-risk pools, health care competition, health insurance tax credits, the individual mandate, genetic information, Social Security, and the federal reinsurance of catastrophic events, among others. He also speaks regularly on various college campuses and teaches a seminar on “Shaping Law and Policy” at Duke University School of Law.
Mr. Miller has a JD from the Duke University School of Law and a BA in political science from New York University.
Tazewell Taylor Professor of Law and William H. Cabell Research Professor, William & Mary Law School
Jonathan H. Adler joined the William & Mary law faculty as the Tazwell Taylor Professor of Law and William H. Cabell Research Professor in 2025. Prior to joining the faculty, he was the inaugural Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law and the founding Director of the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law.
Professor Adler is the author or editor of seven books, including Climate Liberalism: Perspectives on Liberty, Property and Pollution (Palgrave, 2023), Marijuana Federalism: Uncle Sam and Mary Jane (Brookings Institution Press, 2020), Business and the Roberts Court (Oxford University Press, 2016) and Rebuilding the Ark: New Perspectives on Endangered Species Act Reform (AEI Press, 2011).
His articles have appeared in publications ranging from the Harvard Environmental Law Review and Yale Journal on Regulation to the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Washington Post. He has testified before Congress a dozen times, and his work has been cited in the U.S. Supreme Court. A 2024 study identified Professor Adler as the seventh most cited legal academic in administrative and environmental law from 2019 to 2023.
Professor Adler is a contributing editor to Civitas Outlook and a regular contributor to the popular legal blog, The Volokh Conspiracy. A regular commentator on constitutional and regulatory issues, he has appeared on numerous radio and television programs, ranging from the PBS Newshour and National Public Radio to the Fox News Channel and Entertainment Tonight.
Professor Adler is a senior fellow at the Property & Environment Research Center in Bozeman, Montana. In 2018, Professor Adler was elected to membership in the American Law Institute and helped co-found the organization Checks and Balances. In 2024, Professor Adler was appointed a public member of the Administrative Conference of the United States.
Professor Adler clerked for the Honorable David B. Sentelle on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Director, Vanderbilt Health Policy Center, Vanderbilt University Law School
Director of Litigation and Senior Attorney, Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute
Theodore H. Frank is director at the Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute and the Center for Class Action Fairness. Frank founded and ran CCAF as a non-profit, public interest law firm in 2009.
Frank has won several landmark appeals and tens of millions of dollars for consumers and other plaintiffs through his class action work. Adam Liptak of The New York Times calls Frank “the leading critic of abusive class action settlements” and the American Lawyer Litigation Daily referred to him as “the indefatigable scourge of underwhelming class action settlements.”
Previously, Frank clerked for the Honorable Frank H. Easterbrook on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and was a litigator at firms in Washington and Los Angeles and a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Frank is a frequent public speaker and has testified before Congress multiple times on legal issues. He has been profiled by The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, GQ, and the ABA Journal, among other publications.
In 2008, Frank was elected to membership in the American Law Institute. He also serves on the Executive Committee of the Federalist Society Litigation Practice Group. Frank graduated from The University of Chicago Law School in 1994 with high honors and as a member of the Order of the Coif and the Law Review. He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar and the state bars of California and Illinois.
Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
Thomas Miller is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he studies health care policy, including regulatory barriers to choice and competition, market-based alternatives to the Affordable Care Act, health care litigation, and the political economy of health care reform.
A former senior health economist for the Joint Economic Committee in Congress, Mr. Miller was previously a trial attorney, journalist, and sports broadcaster.
Mr. Miller is the coauthor of the bestseller “Why Obamacare Is Wrong for America” (HarperCollins, 2011), the first in-depth examination of the impact of the Affordable Care Act. His analyses and commentary have been published and featured widely in peer-reviewed publications and in the popular press, including Cato Journal, Health Affairs, Law and Contemporary Problems, the Journal of Law, Medicine, and Politics, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.
Mr. Miller has also testified before Congress on the uninsured, health care costs, Medicare cost sharing, high-risk pools, health care competition, health insurance tax credits, the individual mandate, genetic information, Social Security, and the federal reinsurance of catastrophic events, among others. He also speaks regularly on various college campuses and teaches a seminar on “Shaping Law and Policy” at Duke University School of Law.
Mr. Miller has a JD from the Duke University School of Law and a BA in political science from New York University.
Explainer Episode 51 - Beyond Medicaid? Potential Paths Forward to Better Healthcare
Thomas P. Miller
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Panel III: Health Care and the Environment
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