{"id":576,"date":"2020-07-03T19:49:51","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T19:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/cepa\/?post_type=speaker&p=576"},"modified":"2020-07-03T19:49:52","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T19:49:52","slug":"avik-roy","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/cepa\/speaker\/avik-roy\/","title":{"rendered":"Avik Roy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Avik Roy is the President of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity (FREOPP.org), a non-partisan, non-profit think tank that conducts original research on expanding opportunity to those who least have it. Roy\u2019s work has been praised widely on both the right and the left.\u00a0National Review<\/em>\u00a0has called him one of the nation\u2019s \u201csharpest policy minds,\u201d while the\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u2019 Paul Krugman described him as man of \u201cpersonal and moral courage.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roy has advised three presidential candidates on policy, including Marco Rubio, Rick Perry, and Mitt Romney. As the Senior Advisor to Perry\u2019s campaign in 2015, Roy was also the lead author of Gov. Perry\u2019s major policy speeches. The Wall Street Journal<\/em> called Perry\u2019s address on intergenerational black poverty \u201cthe speech of the campaign so far.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roy also serves as the Opinion Editor at Forbes<\/em>, where he writes on politics and policy, and manages The Apothecary, the influential Forbes<\/em> blog on health care policy and entitlement reform. Hugh Hewitt has called Roy \u201cthe most influential conservative analyst on health care.\u201d NBC\u2019s Chuck Todd, on Meet the Press<\/em>, said Roy was one \u201cof the most thoughtful guys [who has] been debating\u201d health care reform. MSNBC\u2019s Chris Hayes calls The Apothecary \u201cone of the best takes from conservatives on that set of issues.\u201d Ezra Klein, in the Washington Post<\/em>, called The Apothecary one of the few \u201cblogs I disagree with [that] I check daily.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roy is the author of How Medicaid Fails the Poor<\/em>, published by Encounter Books in 2013, and Transcending Obamacare: A Patient-Centered Plan for Near-Universal Coverage and Permanent Fiscal Solvency<\/em>, a second edition of which was published in 2016 by FREOPP. He serves on the advisory board of the National Institute for Health Care Management, is a Senior Advisor to the Bipartisan Policy Center, and co-chaired the Fixing Veterans Health Care Policy\u2008Taskforce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roy\u2019s writing has also appeared in The Wall<\/em>\u2008Street Journal<\/em>, The New York Times<\/em>, The Washington Post<\/em>, USA Today<\/em>, The Atlantic<\/em>, National Review<\/em>, The Weekly Standard<\/em>, and National Affairs<\/em>, among other publications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is a frequent guest on television news programs, including appearances on Fox News, Fox Business, NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, Bloomberg, CBS, PBS, and HBO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From 2011 to 2016, Roy served as a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, where he conducted research on the Affordable Care Act, entitlement reform, universal coverage, international health systems, and FDA policy. Previously, he served as an analyst and portfolio manager at Bain Capital, J.P. Morgan, and other firms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was born and raised near Detroit, Michigan, and graduated from high school in San Antonio, Texas.\u00a0USA Today<\/em>\u00a0named him to its All-USA High School Academic First Team, honoring the top 20 high school seniors in the country. Roy was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he studied molecular biology, and the Yale University School of Medicine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":577,"template":"","class_list":{"0":"post-576","1":"speaker","2":"type-speaker","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"entry"},"acf":{"speaker_title":"President, Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity","speaker_last_name":"Roy","speaker_classification":["Featured Guests"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/cepa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/cepa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/cepa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/cepa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":579,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/cepa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/576\/revisions\/579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/cepa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/cepa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}