Michael F. Cannon

{{Short description|Think tank official}}

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Michael F. Cannon is director of health policy studies at the Cato Institute, where he advocates for free-market healthcare, such as Medicare reform through "public option" principles and ending the tax exclusion for employer-sponsored health insurance. His most recent work includes a policy analysis entitled 'End the Tax Exclusion for Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance,'{{Cite web |last=Cannon |first=Michael F |title=End the Tax Exclusion for Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance |url=https://www.cato.org/policy-analysis/end-tax-exclusion-employer-sponsored-health-insurance-return-1-trillion-workers-who}} which quantifies the impact of Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance on employees. Cannon is also a contributor and speaker for the Federalist Society. Some of his work for the Federalist Society includes a teleforum on "Who Should Decide Whether Drugs Are Available Over-The-Counter or by prescription?" and speaking at a webinar on FDA Policy and the COVID-19 Pandemic.{{Cite web |date=March 15, 2021 |title=FDA Policy and the Covid-19 Pandemic |url=https://fedsoc.org/events/fda-policy-and-the-covid-19-pandemic |website=The Federalist Society}} Cannon is also a member of the Federalist Society Regulatory Transparency Project's FDA & Health Working Group.{{Cite web |title=FDA & Health |url=https://regproject.org/topic/fda-health/ |website=Regulatory Transparency Project}}

In 2007 the second edition of Cannon's co-authored book Healthy Competition: What's Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It was published.{{Cite web |title=Healthy Competition |url=https://www.cato.org/books/healthy-competition |website=Cato Institute}} This updated version expands upon the 2005 edition of the same name and offers a detailed analysis of health care reform. In 2013, he authored 50 Vetoes: How States Can Stop the Obama Health Care Law, describing Obamacare as "harmful, unstable, and unpopular."{{Cite book |last=Cannon |first=Michael F. |title=50 Vetoes: How States Can Stop the Obama Health Care Law |publisher=Cato Institute |year=2013}} His criticisms of Obamacare and warnings about the detriments to affordable health care and health care access following the implementation of Obamacare have ignited descriptions of Cannon as "ObamaCare's single most relentless antagonist"{{Cite magazine |last=MacGillis |first=Alec |date=November 12, 2013 |title=Obamacare's Single Most Relentless Antagonist |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/115576/obamacares-web-site-exchange-woes-trace-catos-michael-cannon |magazine=The New Republic}} and "ObamaCare's fiercest critic".{{Cite web |last=Lemieux |first=Scott |date=July 22, 2015 |title=How ObamaCare's fiercest critic all but admitted the legal case against it was a scam |url=https://theweek.com/articles/567657/how-obamacares-fiercest-critic-all-but-admitted-legal-case-against-scam |website=The Week}}

On September 26, 2013, Cannon spoke at the Pepperdine Caruso School of Law on the subject, "Obamacare and the Tax."{{Cite web|url=https://fedsoc.org/past-events?speaker=michael-cannon&page=3|title=Past Events | the Federalist Society}}